TTCB get $1 million from Jack Warner

Attempts are on to ensure that Trinidad and Tobago is a well-secured cricket-playing nation by the time the World Cup starts © Getty Images

The Warner Group of Companies, chaired by Jack Warner, has funded the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) for the 2006 season to the sum of $1 million.

Warner made the announcement yesterday after he came to an agreement with Deryck Murray, the TTCB president, following recent discussions.

The financial assistance, according to Warner, is being provided with the aim of ensuring that the game is properly run throughout the five zones, including Tobago, and the TTCB is fully functional.

Warner, for the second year, will also sponsor Central-based Joe Public Munroe Road Cricket Club for the 2006 National Division League One season in excess of $250,000, inclusive of administrative duties, team management and preparations, match fees and other incentives

Warner said his contribution was an attempt to develop the sport of cricket and to ensure that T&T is a well-secured cricket-playing nation for the future, especially by the time the 2007 Cricket World Cup comes around.

"Today we have with us the greatest batsman to ever live and he is a Trinidadian. I don't need to tell you his name but I can tell you that we are today searching very deep for another individual as our next great one and this doesn't come overnight," said Warner yesterday. "The game of cricket must be alive in all corners of the country and it must be developed and well managed. While you may have the hands capable of doing it in the offices and on the playing fields, you also need the right resources to achieve it and this is merely my contribution towards reaching there."