For Release Upon Receipt - June 13, 2020
St. Augustine
ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago. June 13, 2020 – The UWI Women’s Cricket Club (UWI WCC) will compete in the Premiership Division in 2021 after securing a top-two finish in the 30-over format of the Trinidad & Tobago Women’s Cricket Association’s Championship Division this year.
The UWI WCC, led by Talia Baksh in the 30-over format, remained unbeaten but finished in 2nd place after playing one round of cricket less than the eventual winner Tamana United, when the season ended prematurely due to the covid-19 pandemic.
In the T20 competition, The UWI WCC also finished in 2nd place behind Tamana United, having lost one game early in the shortened season. The team was managed by Nadra Dwarika-Baptiste for this season.
The UWI WCC is made up of students, staff, alumni and friends of The UWI. It operates under the purview of The Academy of Sport at the St. Augustine campus and has been on the rise since 2018, capturing the Super Sixes, T10 and T20 titles. This will be the first time since the club’s inception in 2013 that The UWI ladies, now coached by former West Indies’ captain Stephanie Power, will compete at this level.
UWI Women’s Cricket Club Honour Roll 2020
30 Overs League
Most Runs Tammika Nanan-Ramsumair (62 runs - Highest Score 35 Not Out)
Most Wickets Talia Baksh (16 wickets – Best Bowling 5/11)
T20 LEAGUE
Most Runs Latoya Garraway (161 runs - Highest Score 47 Not Out)
Most Wickets Talia Baksh (8 wickets – Best Bowling 3/13)
T10 LEAGUE
Most Runs Aaliyah Williams (51 runs - Highest Score 26)
Most Wickets Rachael-Ann Dookhoo (4 wickets – Best Bowling 2/1)
UWI WCC Captains: Talia Baksh (30 Overs) and Nadra Dwarika-Baptiste (T10 and T20)
Coaching Staff: Stephanie Power and Keshava Ramphal
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NOTES TO EDITOR
Members of The UWI WCC
1. ALEXANDER, Onika
2. ASGARALI, Nadia
3. BAKSH, Talia
4. BENJAMIN, Vodonna
5. BERNARD, Cristal
6. BHAGWANDEEN, Risa
7. DOOKHOO, Rachael-Ann
8. DWARIKA-BAPTISTE, Nadra
9. GARRAWAY, Latoya (Guyana)
10. HERBERT, Anastasiya
11. JOHNSON, Mikhaila
12. Mc DOWELL, Kimi-mia
13. MADOO, Victoria
14. MAHABIR, Hema
15. MATTHEWS, Allison
16. NANAN-RAMSUMAIR, Tammika
17. NARINE, Saabera
18. NELSON, Summer
19. NINAH, Natalie
20. REGIS, Ahkma (St Lucia)
21. SUBHASINGH, Catherina
22. WILLIAMS, Aaliyah (Invited Foreign Player - Barbados)
23. WILLIAMS, Emily
24. WONG, Lorelei
Coach: Stephanie Power
Manager (Ag.): Nadra Dwarika-Baptiste
About The UWI
For more than 70 years The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has provided service and leadership to the Caribbean region and wider world. The UWI evolved from a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948 to an internationally respected, regional university with near 50,000 students across five campuses: Cave Hill in Barbados; Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda; Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago; and an Open Campus. Times Higher Education has ranked The UWI among the top 1,258 universities in world for 2019, and the 40 best universities in its Latin America Rankings for 2018 and 2019. The UWI is the only Caribbean-based university to make the prestigious lists.
As part of its robust globalization agenda, The UWI has established partnering centres with universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, and Africa including the State University of New York (SUNY)-UWI Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development; the Canada-Caribbean Studies Institute with Brock University; the Strategic Alliance for Hemispheric Development with Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES); The UWI-China Institute of Information Technology, the University of Lagos (UNILAG)-UWI Institute of African and Diaspora Studies and the Institute for Global African Affairs with the University of Johannesburg (UJ). The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Social Sciences and Sport. As the region’s premier research academy, The UWI’s foremost objective is driving the growth and development of the regional economy. For more, visit www.uwi.edu.
(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of “The”)
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