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The T&T County Cricket League?
« on: February 03, 2009, 10:41:52 PM »
Why not form a county cricket league in T&T?

You have 8 regions and 8 teams:

Tobago
Saint George
Saint David
Saint Andrew
Caroni
Nariva
Saint Patrick
Victoria
Mayaro

You have companies locally support the team and the multinationals, you have a ground in each county with a u19 u17 u15 development teams. You play when the regional season is not on or you play 7-8 months of the year, 1st class and odi cricket. Its fully pro and the players are never rusty, strength and conditioning coaches and etc etc. From here you select the national team and our county teams can tour other countries and play their county teams to uphold the intl standard.

Whats good about this is, you select the players from the county itself and current national players will be allocated to the different teams to make it fair. However, the remaining players and development players will be selected from the region and that will ensure talent is scouted throughout the entire island, so there is no untapped talent.

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Re: The T&T County Cricket League?
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2009, 01:41:13 PM »
Not a bad idea but who go bankroll it? 

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Re: The T&T County Cricket League?
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2009, 10:43:39 PM »
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Re: The T&T County Cricket League?
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2009, 03:57:23 PM »
St. George will need to have 3 teams. West, Central and East. St. George has the biggest population. It would be nice to have that competition

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Re: The T&T County Cricket League?
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2009, 01:59:11 AM »
At the moment, TT has the best structure in the Caribbean. I'll even go as far as saying that TT cricket is better organised and administered than WI cricket. TT cricket has consistently performed at very high standards in WI regional cricket for the last few years. A look at the trophy cabinet will atest to that, and recent memory will trace back to the Stanford Series, with a memorable performance against Middlesex; and a courageous performance against England.

With all due respect, I think trying to break up that structure to implement and idea such as this will destroy the fabric that the TTCBC has worked long and hard to nurture and build.

Cricket at the grassroots level is as strong as it has ever been. Support at all levels of the game has not fallen off. I would even argue that you can possibly get a bigger turnout for a village rivalry than you would get for a PFL game.

Cricket is in good hands, but at the same time, cannot go forward without proper checks and balances.
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Re: The T&T County Cricket League?
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2009, 11:00:01 AM »
I agree with acb up to a point. Our current structure is decent as it is. Culturally though those community/borrough/state type competitions are more tricky to launch here. In places like England or Australia for example their local (state) governments have provisions to sponsor and support a county-like structure. Add to that corporate sponsorship, strong community support (bigger populations) and better infra-structure you'd find that we'd be hard pressed to duplicate a system like that.

If it isn't broke don't fix it. While we can always look at ways to improve what we have there's no reason to change it at this point.

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Re: The T&T County Cricket League?
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2009, 01:49:06 AM »
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Re: The T&T County Cricket League?
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2009, 10:35:19 AM »
I agree with acb up to a point. Our current structure is decent as it is. Culturally though those community/borrough/state type competitions are more tricky to launch here. In places like England or Australia for example their local (state) governments have provisions to sponsor and support a county-like structure. Add to that corporate sponsorship, strong community support (bigger populations) and better infra-structure you'd find that we'd be hard pressed to duplicate a system like that.

If it isn't broke don't fix it. While we can always look at ways to improve what we have there's no reason to change it at this point.

the reasoning for a county league is to have our players playing regularly and take up cricket full time while having a good salary to do so. the reason why the aussies and south africa, england have done so well is bc their players play year round, we need to do this also.
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Re: The T&T County Cricket League?
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2009, 12:26:55 PM »
I agree with acb up to a point. Our current structure is decent as it is. Culturally though those community/borrough/state type competitions are more tricky to launch here. In places like England or Australia for example their local (state) governments have provisions to sponsor and support a county-like structure. Add to that corporate sponsorship, strong community support (bigger populations) and better infra-structure you'd find that we'd be hard pressed to duplicate a system like that.

If it isn't broke don't fix it. While we can always look at ways to improve what we have there's no reason to change it at this point.

the reasoning for a county league is to have our players playing regularly and take up cricket full time while having a good salary to do so. the reason why the aussies and south africa, england have done so well is bc their players play year round, we need to do this also.

I agree that they need to play more cricket and at a higher level as well, but completely changing the current system doesn't need to happen for that. They already have a well organised club system in place... innovate as rotatopoti said, and that can be as simple as adding competitions (cups, etc.).

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Re: The T&T County Cricket League?
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2009, 01:26:42 PM »
I agree with acb up to a point. Our current structure is decent as it is. Culturally though those community/borrough/state type competitions are more tricky to launch here. In places like England or Australia for example their local (state) governments have provisions to sponsor and support a county-like structure. Add to that corporate sponsorship, strong community support (bigger populations) and better infra-structure you'd find that we'd be hard pressed to duplicate a system like that.

If it isn't broke don't fix it. While we can always look at ways to improve what we have there's no reason to change it at this point.

the reasoning for a county league is to have our players playing regularly and take up cricket full time while having a good salary to do so. the reason why the aussies and south africa, england have done so well is bc their players play year round, we need to do this also.

I agree that they need to play more cricket and at a higher level as well, but completely changing the current system doesn't need to happen for that. They already have a well organised club system in place... innovate as rotatopoti said, and that can be as simple as adding competitions (cups, etc.).

this club system is still leaving many areas in trinidad untapped and especially tobago, if you have a county system it gives more opportunity to more players and youth development is increased, i never said get rid of the current system, the current system can stay but players will be enticed to play county cricket bc hey can make a living out of it, playing club cricket in trinidad doesnt guarantee that.