Cricket race starts tonight

THE RACE for the 2007/2008 Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) elections will officially start tonight with a North East Zone meeting to announce their candidates who will contest the zonal elections in their area.

The incumbent chairman of the North East Zone, Arjune Ramlal will again seek re-election.

He is joined by long-serving administrators John Lewis, Mitra Ragoonanan and Ravi Motilal.

However, it is reported that Ramlal’s nomination list is short by two candidates since each zone needs six representatives to contest an election.

This may prove to be a problem for Ramlal since the deadline for nominations was on Friday and he would be unable to register the two candidates needed to meet the quota.

The North East Zone has been hit hard this year with several of the clubs leaving to join soon to be introduced East Zone. As a result the formation of the East Zone had originally been met with resentment by the North East Zone.

Currently the reformation of the East and the South West Zones has been approved by the TTCB. The zones must now meet certain criteria before there are any elections in these zones.

The committee in charge of assessing the criteria for reformation of the East and South West Zones, headed by Azim Bassarath, will meet on September 6 before giving a final proposal to the TTCB.

All zonal, Super League and National League elections must be held before September 30 before the focus shifts to the annual general elections which will take place on October 27.

T&T Newsday