The Central Zone of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board will bowl off their 2016 season with a Super Sixes tournament on Saturday and Sunday, January 30 and 31, 2016 at the Exchange Village, and Balmain recreation grounds.
Chairman of the Central Zone, Manohar Ramsaran, said that apart from the overall winners, runners-up, and losing finalists there would also be attractive individual awards for the outstanding performers.
Among those in line for the top honours will be the “Player of the Tournament,” the cricketers hitting the most sixes, and the best bowler of the tournament.
Ramsaran who has been at the helm of the effort to reintroduce improved management to the Central Zone said he expected the 24 teams signed up for the zone’s 2016 competitions to each field six-man squads in the novel tournament.
He said that each side will be allowed five overs each and he expected records to be broken as the two grounds chosen to stage the competition were conducive to big hitting.
Ramsaran said the competition will start at 9 am each day, and the 24 teams will be divided into six groups of four at the start, with the winners progressing towards the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.
“We have been encouraged by the interest being shown in the Central Zone by the successes of the past season when the interim management committee took control. We are aiming to lift the bar a little higher this year and the Super Sixes will set the stage,” the former sports minister said.
Ramsaran, who is also an executive member of the TTCB, said the recent appointment of several important committees had laid the groundwork for many people, to come forward to contribute to the effort of making Central Zone cricket a force it once was in local cricket.
He said that the marketing and communications committee chaired by media personality Siewdath Persad was in the final stages of producing a commemorative brochure which would highlight the activities of the Central Zone, and provide valuable information about its activities during the season.
He said that it would also act as a collector’s item and add to the database now being put in place to chronicle the players, officials, teams, grounds, communities and all other aspects of the game.
Ramsaran said that his officers were also seriously considering launching a programme to attract members of the public to become involved in officiating and that its most experienced umpire Kimrajh Barasingha would be called upon to lead an initiative to train umpires.
He said further details of the Super Sixes, including the attractive prize structure, and its valued sponsors would be revealed in the next week at an official media launch.