00:00Jason Mohamed is a Trinidad and Tobago batsman, but he would not be offended if you look at his bowling figures and refer to him as an all-rounder.
00:08What's your best bowling figures in regional cricket?
00:11I'm in 50. I'm in about 3 for 25.
00:14So if you get the opportunity, do you think you can better that?
00:17Yeah, yeah, I'll try my best too.
00:19He may be the surprise addition to the Red Force bowling attack, but coach Riyad Emrit would largely be counting on him for his stability in the batting line-up.
00:27The main role for me is to try to bathe with the innings and try to help Trinidad and Tobago win the tournament.
00:33That's my main objective for this tournament.
00:36Mohamed indicated that he feels no pressure to perform for the team as a senior player.
00:43Obviously, there will be a little added pressure on me, but for me, it's not going into the game pressure.
00:49I think that I have to score runs because I'm senior or I have to score runs because I'm older than the rest of the guys.
00:54So me, I just want to enjoy playing. So as I said, there's always pressure, but it's how well you cope with it, how well you handle it.
01:00And I look forward to these occasions.
01:03What about his desires for representing West Indies cricket?
01:06That's a pretty hard question to answer. I don't know.
01:09I don't think so because just concluded regional for the tournament.
01:13I was the best batsman with the most runs on fourth century and I wasn't selected for the test team.
01:18So I don't see how this is going to be much different, but you never know.
01:22I'm still hoping. That's always my aim on something for Trinidad to be able to play for the West Indies team.
01:27But that's beyond my control. I do what I can do, which is score runs and it's up to them.
01:34However, despite being sidelined from the West Indies team, he still has a few objectives to achieve for the national team in both four-day and 50 over cricket,
01:42notably becoming the highest run scorer.
01:45As a batsman, you know, when I started as a young kid, I was always someone quite particular on numbers.
01:54And that's the reason why I still play. I want to try and work out with all the numbers as a batsman for Trinidad and Tobago
02:01in terms of most runs on century and stuff like that.
02:03I already have the most runs in both format for Trinidad and Tobago.
02:07I just try to add to that and just try to add to my legacy before I say goodbye to the game.
02:13What else is there for you to do?
02:15I'm two centuries away from joining Brant Lara for the most centuries in 50 of a tournament.
02:22So that will be one of my main goals.
02:24And yeah, just to see how much runs I can stack up this year to add on to what I already have in terms of most runs for Trinidad and Tobago.
02:32And in terms of four-day cricket, also I have the most centuries there.
02:36I'm 17, so whenever next year I come around, if I'm still playing, I'm still fit enough.
02:41I want to be the first batsman from Trinidad and Tobago to get to 20 centuries.
02:45TNT opened their campaign against Barbados pride on November 19th.
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