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2020 morals from a Twenty20 performance

October 28, 2009 by Edmund Gall

Based on the recent performance of the T&T men’s cricket team in the Airtel Champions League Twenty20 2009 tournament, hosted brilliantly by India, here are some of the useful lessons learnt.

Resilience

You’re going to get knocked for six at some point in life.  Learn from the experience and then try again.  In T&T’s semi-final match against the Cape Cobras, Dwayne Bravo got hit all over the place, ending up with figures of 43 runs for no wicket off 3 overs.  It didn’t stop him from turning in a match-winning Player-of-the-Match performance with the bat of 58 runs of 34 balls to lead T&T into the inaugural final.

Make the most of what you have

Daren Ganga may not have had a group full of the best players in the world – in fact, only Dwayne Bravo was viewed by the outside world as a possible threat.  Yet the management staff were able to turn this group of unknowns into a Champion team off the field, and Daren Ganga was able to marshal them to five victories on the trot on the field through clever bowler rotation and field placements. {Read more}