PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago say they will use the Cricket Festival Twenty20 series to regain their winning habit, as they build up to next month’s start of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship. T&T will line up against CT20 champions Guyana, a T&T ‘A’ side and an Academy XI, in the series which bowls off  this evening at Guaracara Park.
Following disappointing displays in  this year’s four-day, limited overs and T20 championships, newly appointed manager Omar Khan said the three-day tournament would be crucial for his side’s confidence.
“What we want to do is start back that winning culture that we had, when we were winning titles,” said Khan, who has managed the West Indies in the past.
“We want to start with this tournament and we are looking forward to the opening game against the Academy. A win is a win and it is important that we start with a victory against the youngsters, as we build up to the final match against defending champions Guyana.”
T&T will open against the Academy XI, clash with the ‘A’ side tomorrow before clashing with Guyana in the marquee fixture of the tournament.
Both T&T and Guyana are using the competition as a warm-up for the CT20 which will run from January 10 to 23 in Antigua and Barbados.
T&T will do battle in Group B with this year’s losing finalists Barbados, Leeward Islands, Canada and English County Hampshire while Guyana tackle Combined Campuses and Colleges, Windward Islands, Jamaica and Somerset, the other English County in the tournament.