$40,000 for Sunday Cricket winner

Prosport Sports Wear will in 2009, join the Nationwide Sports League in promoting the 13th edition of the Grand Slam Sunday 30 Overs Cricket League Championships. Nal Ramsingh, managing director of Prosport Sportswear & Equipment and Ramsingh Sports World said at the launch at his office in Couva, that his Company was joining hands with the NSL once again as the championships truly represented development of cricket in every community in South and Central Trinidad and more importantly the NSL embodied what community driven sport was about.

He said with the downturn in the economy, cricketers and clubs could be assured that his company would continue to provide the cheapest and the most affordable equipment in the country which was his primary goal when he came into the sporting business. Lincoln Persad, chairman of the league said clubs would be vying for over $ 75,000 in cash and $ 25,000 in other team incentives. The competition will have the largest minor league cash prize of $40,000 for the winner of the championships.

The league semifinals and finals be played under lights at Guaracara Park in 2009. Persad said the league would be played in the communities first in order to eliminate travelling to distant areas with the top four teams from each group qualifying for the top 16. The quarterfinals will be played in a knockout format with the league semifinals only playing for the first time in a best out of three series, with winner qualifying for the grand finals at Guraracara Park Pointe-a-Pierre.

Trinidad Guardian