North commenced their TTCB U13 Inter-Zonal campaign with a dominant 50-run win over East on Wednesday at Knowles Street Recreational Ground. North all-rounder Davis Guerra scored a half-century to spur his team to 235 for 8 in 40 overs. Davis Guerra top scored for North with 89. He then took a four-wicket haul to bowl...Read More
On previous editions of “How’s That” we would have looked at setting up the game before play begins. Given that “play” has now started we would be looking at the ways and means in which an innings can be declared or forfeited. Time of declaration The captain of the side batting may declare an innings...Read More
The North Zone Cricket Council continues to feature our Treasures, through this video series. In this episode, we recognize and acknowledge Dwayne Bravo, the prolific All-rounder from Santa Cruz. Dwayne Bravo entered zonal cricket primarily as a batting all-rounder, a young batsman aspiring to greatness such as his hero, Brian Charles Lara, the left-handed player...Read More
Police opening batsman Brandon Ramdial was named North Zone Cricket Council “Cricketer of the Year” at the zone’s 40th annual awards function on Sunday July 9, held at the Auditorium Restaurant and Lounge, Government Campus Plaza, Port-of-Spain. The hard-hitting right-hander smacked 853 runs for the season and took two wickets for the Police team that...Read More
WELCOME BACK, SSCL. Three years is a long time by any measuring standard. Since 2020’s Covid-enforced abandonment of the SSCL season, our Nation’s talented youngsters have been starved of the game they love. Now, with all necessary permissions granted and guidelines for sanitation measures in place, schools’ cricket is back with a bang. The 2023...Read More
HERE WE GO It has been three long years since the dust last settled upon the cricket uniforms of the Nation’s secondary school students. Covid-19 and its after-effects put paid to many efforts to have sporting activities in that time. Now, however, excitement is rife as the 2023 season of the Secondary Schools’ Cricket League...Read More
Jeremy Solozano, the Trinidad and Tobago left-handed opening batsman, is set to make his Test debut, after being selected to the 15 member squad to tour Sri Lanka from November 6 to December 4. The announcement came via a press release from Cricket West Indies (CWI) on Thursday, November 4. Solozano impressed the selectors during...Read More
As part of their efforts to provide young cricketers with more opportunity to develop their skills, the North Zone of the PowerGen SSCL organized age-group knockout tournaments yearly at the end of the conventional league competitions. The very nature of these games led to many exciting and competitive battles, but there were occasions that individual...Read More
In this episode, we feature a young treasure – Joshua Da Silva, as we continue to recognize and acknowledge some of our outstanding cricketers through a video series called “North Zone Treasures”. This series is sponsored by: National Lotteries Control Board On his first full tours in which he played against New Zealand and Bangladesh,...Read More
In the 2016 SSCL North Zone cricket season, Queen’s Royal College (QRC) had themselves quite a formidable group indeed. With a mix of established older players and exciting younger prospects, the ‘Royalians’ were making waves, particularly in the U-16 division, where the ever-reliable Navin Bidassie, in his final season at this age level, was leading...Read More
