Trinidad board reaffirms commitment to WICB

The Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) has said that it does not share the opinion of team captain Daren Ganga, who suggested that in the future the country could break from West Indies cricket and attempt to become an international team on its own.

"We do not share the view of Mr Ganga that the general public is in support of an independent national team in world cricket," Azim Bassarath, the TTCB president, told Trinidad & Tobago's Newsday. "We think this would be counterproductive to the rich legacy of West Indies cricket and a major setback to the efforts to restore the region to its former glory days as undisputed champions of the world for close to two decades.

"We are justifiably proud that the T&T cricketers can compete at the highest levels of the game as a national team but we believe that they continue to form a significant and important component of West Indies cricket.

"We remain committed to the ideal of West Indies as a truly regional representative team and the case for working together for the benefit of all the stakeholders in regional cricket is still relevant now as it was many years ago. There are problems we agree but a deterioration in the union is not something we will be party to."

Ganga had aired his views in an interview to ESPNcricinfo in Hyderabad, where T&T were qualifying for the main draw of the Champions League Twenty20.. "If we go on to do well on a global stage such as the Champions League, you are going to have public pressure being applied, where they think that a T&T team can fend on its own and has the opportunity to qualify on its own in the 50-over or the 20-over World Cup."