Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board

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The Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) is the ruling body for cricket in Trinidad and Tobago. [1] The current board was incorporated in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago under Act No. 34 of 1989. [2]

Cricket Team sport played with bats and balls

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this and dismiss each player. Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten players have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in international matches. They communicate with two off-field scorers who record the match's statistical information.

Trinidad and Tobago Island country in the Caribbean Sea

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. It is situated 130 kilometres south of Grenada off the northern edge of the South American mainland, 11 kilometres off the coast of northeastern Venezuela. It shares maritime boundaries with Barbados to the northeast, Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the northwest, Guyana to the southeast, and Venezuela to the south and west.

Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago

The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago is the legislative branch of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. The Parliament is bicameral. It consists of the elected House of Representatives, which has 41 members elected for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies, and the Senate which has 31 members appointed by the President: 16 Government Senators appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister, 6 Opposition Senators appointed on the advice of the Leader of the Opposition and 9 Independent Senators appointed by the President to represent other sectors of civil society.

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History

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Cricket game in Trinidad, 1960

The authority was originally established on June 26, 1956 under the name Trinidad Cricket Council. In 1958 it was renamed the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Council to incorporate and reflect the sister isle of Tobago. In January 1980 it was renamed the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board of Control, and subsequently in 2003 assumed its current name. [3]

Tobago Autonomous Island in Trinidad and Tobago

Tobago is an autonomous island within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located 35 kilometres (22 mi) northeast of the mainland of Trinidad and southeast of Grenada, about 160 kilometres (99 mi) off the coast of northeast Venezuela. According to the earliest English-language source cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, Tobago bore a name that has become the English word tobacco. The official bird of Tobago is the cocrico.

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References

  1. ↑ "About Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board". ttcb.co.tt. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Act No 34 of 1989". Government of Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ "TTCB Constitution" (PDF). Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board. Retrieved October 8, 2015.


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