00:00The regional 4-day tournament is known to start around January or February, but this year's competition starts in April
00:06with TNT's players giving it their all in training.
00:09Among those putting in a lot of effort is keeper batter Joshua De Silva, who has also been playing club
00:14cricket to be fully prepared.
00:15It's been really good. We've been down here for quite a few months now, getting prepared for the tournament in
00:21April.
00:21We've been playing club cricket, a lot of club cricket at that every weekend and Tuesday and Wednesday cricket as
00:26well,
00:26which is good to play more cricket and get more experience and just be around.
00:30We haven't been involved in the two-day stuff much in the last few years.
00:33I mean, I haven't played much two-day in the last five years for Queen's Park, so it's nice to
00:38actually get a full season and play some Red Bull cricket for Queen's Park
00:41and actually score some runs there and get some confidence to build for the 4-day.
00:45De Silva had a solid 2025 first-class season for Team Red Force, scoring three centuries.
00:50As was the case last year, the 27-year-old wants to have a productive 2026 and is therefore leaving
00:57nothing to chance.
00:58Obviously, I want to score as many runs as I can. Every goal when I bat is to score 100
01:02and score as much as I can.
01:03Not only 100 if I could go on. Definitely want to get a double century under my belt.
01:08I'll probably be one of the goals for this year and yeah, Jason has quite a few so he keeps
01:14saying he's the double 100 king.
01:15So I want to be able to say that I have one in first-class cricket and not only one.
01:19If I could score many, that would be great. But yeah, it's just about doing the best for the team,
01:22whatever the team needs in that particular game and yeah, everything will handle itself.
01:26Even though T&T have not won the 4-day title for a long time, De Silva has utmost faith
01:31in the players.
01:32With a strong side expected to be named later this month, he feels the Twin Island country can go all
01:37the way.
01:38We always play a tournament to win. The mood in the camp right now is great.
01:42We've been having some good practices, some good challenges between the fast bowlers, the batsmen, the spinners.
01:46Everyone has been going at each other. There's a bit of a fire in the nets at the moment.
01:51So yeah, and we're supposed to have all of our players here from West Indies duty hopefully for all the
01:57games.
01:57So I mean, Trinidad team at full strength I think is the best in the region.
02:01We have Jadon, Andy with the bat with the bowl in Terro, our batting, Jangu, Jed.
02:06Jed is in some really good form for Queen's back right now.
02:08So hopefully he carries that through.
02:09Seifers Cooper as well is going a lot of runs and he can hopefully can carry on from last year
02:12in first-class cricket as well.
02:13And what about a return to the West Indies test side for the silver?
02:17Wearing the maroon cap will mean a lot to the Diego Martin-based resident, hence the reason he's not giving
02:22up on his dream.
02:23Yeah, of course, quite a few times I go back and look at my innings that I've played 100 against
02:27England, 79 against Australia and 92 against Bangladesh.
02:30So it's just reminding myself to knowing what I'm capable of.
02:33I mean, I scored quite a few runs last year in the first-class season as well.
02:37So just looking to replicate those things and control what I can control at the end of the day.
02:41Once I'm fit, once I'm ready, yeah, the Lord will help me and guide me to whatever is meant for
02:47me in this world.
02:48The silver has played 33 test matches for the windies, scoring a century and 550s.
02:53Plus he has 127 dismissals behind the stumps.
02:57They don't know.
02:57Only 264.
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