TTCB, Courts bring digital scoring

Each team in the National League will use a Tablet to score as oppose to the manual system used by many of the teams in the past.

Chief Executive Officer of the TT CB Suruj Ragoonath explained the new scoring system at the launch at the National Cricket Centre in Couva, yesterday.

Ragoonath said, “It’s a scoring system that is going to be used by scorers via a tablet device, we want to move away from the manual scoring on paper. This type of scoring would be real time, you can just log on to the website (www.ttcb.co.tt) and you would be able to follow any match that is being scored.”

He added, “The system in itself displays scorecards, statistics, individual players as well as teams, it is done in real time, and you can look at the system and see a player’s pitch map, wagon-wheels and strike rate.”

President of the TT CB Azim Bassarath said it was always his goal to start using a digital system. Bassarath said, “It was a goal of mine when I assumed the presidency of the TT Cricket Board, to introduce digital scoring at the club level. Under my leadership the TT Cricket Board continues to be a pioneer, we are the first organisation in the western hemisphere to introduce CricHQ platform. Bassarath is hoping the other Caribbean countries follow TT ’s vision. “The benefits of CricHQ will only serve to strengthen our cricket and I am confident that the other West Indian territories will follow our lead. We must continue to push the barrier and find ways to improve if West Indies cricket is to become a dominant force in world cricket again.”