PowerGen Penal Sports Club’s Syne Village Ground in Penal, National Cricket Center in Balmain, Couva, Inshan Ali Park in Preysal and Gilbert Park in California have been selected to host matches in the West Indies Regional Under-17 Cricket Championship, i which will take place in Trinidad next month.
The previous edition of the competition was organized in Trinidad in 2019 and the 2020 and 2021 editions were canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2019, Gilbert Park, NCC and Brian Lara Cricket Academy were used for the tournament.
Delegates from Cricket West Indies and the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board conducted a site visit to Powergen Sports Club, Syne Village, Penal on May 25 to determine the venue’s suitability to host games in the regional under-17 tournament and they were impressed from the object.
Cricket West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave accompanied by director of cricket Jimmy Adams and TTCB president Azim Bassarath were among the delegation that visited the Syne village ground.
The venue boasts an indoor indoor environment as well as the main field where the club competes in National League competitions.
PowerGen Penal Sports Club is home to past and present West Indian cricketers including Chinese left-arm batsman Dave Mohammed, leg-spinner Samuel Badree, middle-order batsman Jason Mohammed and batsman high Evin Lewis.
Inshan Ali Park-based Preysal Sports Club, meanwhile, has also produced West Indian players, including former Test skipper Denesh Ramdin, fast bowler Ravi Rampaul and the late off-spinner Rangy Nanan.
