Trinidad and Tobago team presented with Stanford 20/20 Championship rings

MONDAY JULY 21, 2008 – PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – On

Monday evening, players and management of the Stanford 20/20 Tournament

2008 winning Trinidad and Tobago team, were each presented with exquisite

championship rings.

At a gala ceremony at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Port of Spain, each member

was presented with a personalized gold and diamond ring for their triumph in

this year’s Stanford 20/20 Tournament.

“Trinidad and Tobago delivered an outstanding performance in 2006 when they

were narrowly beaten in Guyana in one of the most exciting cricket matches of all

time. The teamwork and dedicate demonstrated in the 2008 Stanford 20/20

Tournament earned them these rings which I am delighted to present to them

this evening as a mark of their exceptional performance,” Sir Allen Stanford,

originator of the Stanford 20/20 Tournament said.

The stunning rings are made of 10k gold and feature twenty 2pt diamonds. Each

diamond represents one of the twenty teams that participated in the glittering

single elimination tournament which has revived tremendous interest in cricket in

the Caribbean since its inception in 2006.

Each ring reads ‘Stanford 20/20 Champions’ on the top, carries the Stanford

20/20 2008 logo along with a replica image of the Stanford 20/20 Trophy and is

engraved with each recipient’s name on the inside.

In the final of the multimillion dollar regional tournament, played on January 24 at

the Stanford Cricket Ground in Antigua, Trinidad and Tobago beat Jamaica by

nine wickets to win the top prize of US$1m and the title of regional 20/20

champions.

Full Trinidad and Tobago squad who were presented with Stanford 20/20

championship rings: Daren Ganga (captain), Samuel Badree, Dwayne Bravo,

Andre Browne, Mervyn Dillon, Rayad Emrit, Sherwin Ganga, Richard Kelly, Ahmed

Mohammed, Dave Mohammed, Jason Mohammed, William Perkins, Kieron Pollard,

Denesh Ramdin, Lendl Simmons, David Williams (coach), Kelvin Williams (coach),

Omar Khan (manager), Gerald Garcia (fitness trainer).