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Trinidad side on tour

A ?youthful? Clico Preysal Sports Club cricket team are set to tour Bermuda later this month, club executive Rangy Nanan confirmed from the Caribbean yesterday.

The Trinidad and Tobago Division One club side, bolstered by the additions of West Indies wicketkeeper/batsman Denesh Ramdin, fast bowler Ravi Rampaul and off spinner Ryan Hurley, will arrive in Bermuda on September 17 to play four matches in eight days against local opposition.

Clico Preysal, 2006 national 20/20 champions, will arrive on the Island with a 13-member squad captained by top all-rounder Shazan Bobwah.

?We want to do well and are very much looking forward to this tour,? former Trinidad and Tobago captain Nanan told from the Caribbean yesterday. ?We have a lot of youngsters coming with the team and so this tour will be for development purposes.?

Nanan toured Bermuda with Trinidad and Tobago in 1978 with a team containing the likes of Sheldon Gomes and Derryck Murray to name a few.

The Bermuda Cricket Board-sanctioned event, is being co-hosted by Somerset Cricket Club and Southampton Rangers Sports Club.

Somerset Cricket Club president Richard Scott yesterday welcomed the Caribbean team to Bermuda?s shores with open arms, and also promised local cricket fans cricket at its best.

?Certainly this will be one of the last opportunities for the Island?s cricket enthusiasts to enjoy cricket at its best for the season,? he said.

?We can expect to see some quality matches between all the teams involved. And as co-hosts we look forward to hosting this event and so we encourage the public to come out and enjoy the match.?

The Caribbean side are scheduled to open their week-long tour of the Island on Monday, September 18 with a 20/20 contest against a Bermuda Cricket Board XI at Somerset Cricket Club before taking on Bermuda?s World Cup-bound national cricket team at the National Sports Centre in a two-day affair on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The visiting Trinidadians are then scheduled to play Cup Match champions St.George?s Cricket Club in a 50 overs contest on Friday, September 22 at Somerset Cricket Club, before closing out their tour of the Island with another 50 overs match against a team comprised off all participants that took part in Somerset Cricket Club?s second annual 20/20 cricket tournament this year in the West End.

Bermuda?s senior national team defeated the Caribbean side, who were without several key players at the time, by six-wickets last April in Couva, Trinidad.

?That was a working day and we were unable to get our full-team out,? Nanan explained. ?And so we are looking forward to settling an old score and also giving our youngsters a bit more experience.?

Test wicketkeeper Ramdin seems to have convinced West Indies? selectors that he?s the best choice in the Caribbean, while Rampaul is fresh off a month-long learning curb at a cricket academy in Australia.

Hurley, however, has not seen any action in a West Indies team jersey since touring South Africa with the Windies in 2004.

?Bermuda is a very nice place, and I ?m sure our guys will enjoy the experience. And we will be very competitive,? Nanan added.