00:00Trinidad and Tobago Red Force defeated Barbados by 140 runs in their regional four-day tournament playoff in Antigua on
00:06Wednesday to reach the final.
00:07Having crowned the Bajans for a second straight year in the Red Bull format, TNT coach Riyad Emrit was proud
00:13of his team's efforts.
00:14Beating Barbados again, second year straight, it's a good feeling.
00:19They have been getting the better of us for quite some time in four-day cricket.
00:25So to do it again, two years straight, it's a good feat and especially in a semi-final, you know,
00:33sometimes the semi-finals is even the hardest game of the tournament.
00:38Emrit sees it as a big plus that his troops have been playing as a team instead of relying heavily
00:43on a couple players to get a job done.
00:45According to the Red Force coach, that has also helped with the team chemistry, which he says is one of
00:50the key ingredients for success.
00:52The guys executed really, really well. You know, different players stepping up at different times in games and, you know,
01:03putting in crucial moments, I think is important.
01:06And the guys, we stopped our plans, we executed the plans.
01:12What is good for us is to see different players stepping up, you know, and that's really good for us
01:17as a team.
01:18The guys gel together. They're playing, not for themselves, but, you know, for their country.
01:25And you can see a lot of pride and passion is there in the team.
01:29Emrit says reaching the final is a good feeling, with his players having the desire to go out there and
01:34play tough cricket against defending champions Guyana.
01:36But at the same time, the 45-year-old knows Team Red Force cannot take the Harpy Eagles lightly.
01:42Guyana is going to be a tough opponent.
01:45They have won this tournament for quite some time now and they know how to play finals.
01:52They've been, you know, for the champs for quite some while now.
01:55So, we just want to make sure that we continue to play good cricket.
02:00You know, we do what we can do well.
02:04The opponents, they'll have to look at us and come at us.
02:10We're going to make sure that we can cover our tracks and continue to make sure that we control what
02:17we can control.
02:18The final of the 2026 West Indies Championship bowls off at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Sunday.
02:25Vinod Nowani, Tf6 Sport.
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