TT’s Ramdin star of U-19 cricket series

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Denesh Ramdin, who captained Trinidad and Tobago to the TCL Group Under-19 double, was the star performer at the tournament awards on Saturday evening at the GCC Ground, Bourda.

Ramdin, collected two individual awards plus the TCL League Challenge trophy after guiding TT to tournament-winning first innings points in their draw in the final against Windward Islands. Ramdin, the tournament’s top scorer, won the Caribbean Cement Company’s most outstanding wicket-keeper award and the TCL most outstanding batsman title and led his team’s dominance of the individual awards. Top TT pacer Ravi Rampaul, last year’s tournament MVP, captured the Anwar Cement most outstanding bowler award and Tishan Maraj was named the TCL man-of-the-match for the final. Windwards captain Liam Sebastien was named the Toolsie Persaud Ltd best all-rounder and Jamaica’s Xavier Marshall was the best fieldsman. Trinidad and Tobago captured their first three-day championship title in 16 years, when they claimed first innings points in the final to become the first team in the history of the tournament to do the double, after capturing the one-day title earlier. The last time the Trinidadians were victorious was in 1987 in Jamaica under the captaincy of West Indies captain Brian Lara.