PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Head coach Gus Logie has lamented Trinidad and Tobago Red Force’s inconsistency which saw them finish down the standings in the WICB Professional Cricket League which wrapped up Monday.Red Force, a usual powerhouse in regional cricket, could only manage fifth spot of the six teams this year, as Guyana Jaguars topped the standings to claim the title.

Logie said while they were impressive performances from individuals, the team as a whole lacked the consistency to mount a serious challenge.
“We congratulated people like Jason Mohammed who scored nearly 600 runs for the season. Imran Khan took 56 wickets for a Trinidad and Tobago record for a season,” Logie told the Trinidad Express newspaper.
“Young (Marlon) Richards took 27 wickets so it has been a good season for him as well but not many players stepped up to the plate and in a team environment you need more players consistently contributing scores and taking wickets.”
Red Force, led by all-rounder Rayad Emrit, won just two of their ten outings, in an extremely disappointing season by their standards.
They suffered six losses – including in the last round to bottom-of-the-table Leeward Islands Hurricanes – along with two draws.
Logie, a former West Indies player and coach, said getting players to assume responsibility would be an issue that would require attention in future preparation of teams.
“It is a sort of discipline we have been asking from our players all season and we had it in spurts but not consistently and not all the players putting it together at one time and I think we paid the price for that,” he explained.
“It is something we have to look at carefully. The way we prepare; how we prepare and making sure that players take more responsibility when they get out there in the middle.”
Without the likes of the more experienced players like the Bravo brothers, Dwayne and Darren, Kieron Pollard, Ravi Rampaul, Kevon Cooper and Denesh Ramdin for most of the season, T&T looked to several young players.
And despite the disappointing run, Logie believes youth is where the future lies.
“I think you need a consistent group of players. You need to play with the same group a number of times. If we want to invest in the youngsters, we’ve got to back the players and stay with them,” he said.
“If you look at the season, we had to change quite a few players because of injury or unavailability of players. We need to settle down and realise that if we are having a one-day team, it is a one-day team and if we having a four-day team it is a four-day team.
He continued: “These are the guys we have identified and these are the guys we’ve got to stick with and give them a run and see how it goes. It is about consistency of selection as well and at the end of the day if we can do that, get the players comfortable, I have no doubt that we will see better results in the not-too-distant future.”