Deadline set*
Regional cricket at Lara Stadium by year's end
Published on Feb 19, 2016, 10:14 pm AST
By Mark Pouchet
NATIONAL PRIDE: Sport Minister Darryl Smith, second from left, and West Indies Under 19 cricketers, Jyd Goolie, left, and Kirstan Kallicharan, second from right, during a reception at the National Cricket Centre, Balmain, Couva, on Thursday night. The ceremony was held in recognition of the Young West Indies team's victory in the recently-concluded ICC U-19 World Cup. At right is president of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board, Azim Bassarath. —Photo: INNIS FRANCIS
THE BRIAN Lara Stadium in Tarouba is set to host opening round matches in the West Indies Premier Cricket League (PCL) Four-Day Tournament in the 2016-2017 season which gets under way in November-December. And the Minister of Sport, Darryl Smith, says this gives his ministry a target to have the stadium completed and ready by that time.
President of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) Azim Bassarath, made the announcement as he spoke on Thursday at a function, organised jointly by the TTCB and the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs, to honour Jyd Goolie and Kirstan Kallicharan, members of the ICC Under-19 World Cup-winning West Indies team in Bangladesh.
Bassarath made the declaration just 24 hours after the TTCB executive heard an encouraging presentation from the ministry's team tasked with having the facility ready, nearly a decade after it had been started and originally intended to host matches in the 2007 World Cup.
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