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UWI's women are looking forward to end the TTWCA 50-over season on a high before focusing on the T20 version.

They are currently at the top of the standings and take on Caldrac Achievers two Sundays from now.

Vinod Narwani and cameraman Brandon Benoit met with the team at UWI Spec while they were in training.
Transcript
00:00These young cricketers representing the UWI women's team were involved in a
00:05training session on Wednesday afternoon. They play in the TNT Women's Cricket
00:09Association's Premiership Division. They are currently involved in the 50-over
00:13league competition and play their final limited overs match away to Cadwork
00:16Achievers on February 23rd. UWI all-rounder Michaela Jodan is confident
00:21about her team's chances but at the same time respects the opposition. I expect
00:25that it would pose a great challenge for us but I do believe that we have the
00:28capability to come out victorious. We wouldn't be at full capacity because
00:33some of our key players were selected to represent Trinidad and Tobago in the
00:36regional tournament but I think it's a great opportunity for the rest of us to
00:41really come out and show what we could do both as individuals and a collective
00:46unit. The manager of the UWI women's team is Nadra Dwaraka-Batiste who is also a
00:50qualified umpire and how did this team come about? So this team was established
00:55in 2012 and the leader of that revolution was Miss Crystal James. She
00:59was a former student at UWI and they used to love cricket a whole lot and we
01:03had this lovely field here and no team. So they started to play a little bit
01:07with windball and then they would have graduated to the hardball and eventually
01:11they would have formed the team. So it was a developmental team for a long time
01:14and then eventually we had challenges with students, schedules, exams but we won
01:19the championship tournaments in 2019 the T10 and T20 and in 2022 we were
01:27elevated to the Premiership division by placing second in the Championship League.
01:30The team's home venue is the UWI spec where they were conducting their
01:33training sessions. The team also has some well-known players that have represented
01:37the West Indies at the highest level. Well it's a mix actually so what we have
01:41the students coming into the university most of them are here to study so they
01:45are learning. So our colour of students range from national to beginners but our
01:51coach Stephanie Power she caters to develop all of them. So we have the
01:57students as the core but we do have the outside players as we call them the
02:01specially invited players that make up the rest of the team. So this year we
02:04have players such as Leanne Kirby, Renice Boy, Shilini Samaru so they have
02:08served to strengthen the team. UWI hope to clinch the 50 over title but there
02:12are others also in the race with bonus points coming into the picture. So what
02:16has kept UWI in such a strong position? Well I think one of the things that
02:20attracts Puss & Server Club is the team spirit that we have and we are a team on
02:24the field and off the field as well. We also have dedicated players coming to
02:27practice and then we have them executing that in the game. So you know we have
02:31always been a team where we're like a family. So we take that spirit from each
02:36game to each practice. There isn't any sort of confusion back and all as they
02:41would say. So it's a real family setting and our coach is really, some people say
02:47like a mother to us in the team. Following the 50 over tournament the
02:50Premier Division teams then focus on the T20 format and Dwaraka Baptiste is
02:55confident UWI can be a force to be reckoned with in the shorter format.
02:58Vinod Nawani, Thieves Export.
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