Name: Winston Herbert TrottDate of Birth: 10/08/44Start in cricket: I began my career in cricket at the Devonshire Rec. at the age of 16. At that time, I played with Pepe Dill, Leonie James and Vance Campbell. In the beginning, I just got a few games. My fielding was pretty good so it helped me to get into the team.Length of career: 1961 to 1986. I played my first Cup Match in 1968. All together, I played 13 Cup Matches.Childhood memories of the game: I played in the backyard at the Old Elliott. Back then, we used anything for a wicket. It could be a trash can, a barrel, or a card board box; of course, the bigger the wicket, the better. I liked it when we used a barrel as you could see the wicket on both sides of the batsman, plus it made noise when struck. This helped to avoid arguments about dismissals. This, or a trash can, was ideal, as it meant no one stayed in a long time.Teams played for: Devonshire Recreation Club, Pond Hill Stars (one year), the first Masters team, SICL picks, Bailey’s Bay (Eastern County), Somerset Cup Match Team, and the Bermuda ICC teams of 1979 and ’82.Nickname: CoeFavourite local match you played in: This was a game between Devonshire Rec. and Bailey’s Bay, at the Rec. A young Noel Gibbons had just scored a century the previous week. Anyway, we were knocked down for 53, and dismissed them for 40 something.Best international feat: The New Zealand Test team came here, and Clarence (Parfitt) and I bowled them out for 250 at the National Stadium. I got four (wickets) and he got five. They had such people as Glenn Turner and Terry Jarvis in their line-up.Also, during the ICC against East Africa, I had figures of 12 overs, three wickets for eight runs. In my first eight overs, I was 2 for 3. I can remember bowling just one loose ball in that entire spell.Coe revealed an interesting point about his time playing on the same team as Parfitt. “He made you a better bowler,” Coe noted. “If you know that Parfitt is coming on the ball after you, then you’d better do your damage ahead of him. For, there was no guarantee that you would get the ball back once he had it.”Favourite venue: Edgebaston in Birmingham, England (Warwickshire’s home ground). I bowled five guys out in a match that we played there.Favourite international player: Clive Lloyd (the former captain of the West Indies). His batting was safer than anyone else’s, and his fielding was tops.Number one supporter: My family, particularly, my dad. He showed me a few things about bowling in the yard.Pre match routine(s): I would get to the ground about a half-hour before the game started. My big thing was checking out the wind conditions, so I could determine which end I was going to bowl from.Favourite dish while playing: I didn’t eat much of anything. It wasn’t that important to me. I wanted a cool drink, something to keep myself hydrated.Biggest regret in my career: This would be the two ICC tournaments of 1979 and 1982. We came so close both times. In ‘79, we lost to Canada, and if we were to play them ten times, most likely we would beat them seven or eight times. In ’82 Bermuda made it to the finals and lost out to Zimbabwe. These were both great accomplishments, but disappointing for me.Any superstitions: At the Rec. the younger guys sat by the door, and the more senior guys sat in a particular part of the changing room.Funniest thing you have seen in cricket: While fielding in slips next to (Erskine) Choe Smith, there was an occasion when teammates were dropping catches left, right and centre. He turned to me and said, ‘Some days, don’t you just wish you could field everywhere’.Hobbies: GolfA key to my success: Determination and fitness. I used to run the Ocean View Golf Course. When I moved to Warwick, it was the beaches.Motto you believe in: There is always one more chance. Concentrate all the way. I was a bowler and always believed this.Winston Coe Trott was a special talent. The key to his success was deadly accuracy, huge swing, and a fierce determination. If the conditions were overcast, you knew your day batting against him was going to be difficult.Coe shared a story with me from that famous match against Malaysia, during the 1982 ICC campaign. Just before he ran in to bowl his first delivery of the match, he asked El James to move in and field up close on the bat. The Malaysian opener proceeded to slam Coe’s first delivery out of the grounds and into the nearby tennis courts. Of course a perplexed El James turned abruptly and gave Coe a look that seemed to imply ‘Is that what you brought me up on the bat for?’ Needless to say, Coe responded swiftly, for with the next ball, he dismissed the batsman.