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Cricketers this was the state of affairs?

Postby .:PROZAC:.. » October 16th, 2009, 8:45 am

Poultry company rescues T&T Source Trinidad Express

Mark Pouchet


Friday, October 16th 2009


When neither the Trinidad and Tobago government nor a local company had the foresight to fund the national senior cricket team, a Trinidad and Tobago-born businessman managed to get India's largest poultry company to sponsor them in the Airtel Champion's League 20/20 Tournament.

Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board president Deryck Murray said yesterday that the sponsorship deal which was in the works about three weeks before the start of the Asian competition, was only nailed down a few days before the T&T squad's departure.

The story of how the logo of Asia's largest poultry company Venky's (India) Limited, which employs 2.5 million people in the Asian sub continent, became emblazoned across the chests of the T&T senior cricketers began when T&T skipper Daren Ganga told his friend Neil Prashad about the troubles of his squad to secure sponsorship for the tournament.

Prashad, an executive vice president of Bala Entertainment, the personal media company of Venky's owner Dr Balaji Rao, introduced the idea to Rao.

"By birth I'm Trinidadian. As a result of that when I found out through my friendship with Daren Ganga that the team had no sponsor, I was more than proud and happy to present Dr Balaji Rao for him to sponsor T&T through Venky's," Prashad revealed. Rao was said to have viewed tapes of Trinidad and Tobago senior cricketers in action, including their Stanford 20/20 winning performance.

"Dr Rao said 'I am proud to sponsor Trinidad and Tobago and extremely proud of the team thus far and the performance of all players and the captain Daren Ganga. I have intentions to expand my business in the Caribbean and Latin America based out of Trinidad, so this is just a snapshot of my cooperation with T&T by supporting the national team of T&T'. That's a direct quote," Prashad said in a phone interview from India yesterday.

It seems that Dr Rao's enthusiasm is shared by the public in India with the sports pages of dailies hailing and praising the efforts and victories of the T&T team in their first two games.

Despite all the hype and thrill that the local team has generated in the tournament, Prashad was a little saddened that Ganga and company did not have a single sponsor except Venky's for the competition and that the T&T Government failed to have the vision to launch their country as a product in India.

"The bottom line is that it is very commendable for a tiny island like T&T to be performing so well and doing so well. And I'm a bit disappointed that potentially more than one billion people are talking about and watching their teams and there has not been one advertisement about T&T, nothing from the tourism department to say come visit our island, the land of Brian Lara. Nothing to show T&T as a business card. It is an opportunity lost," he lamented.

Prashad added that Lara's name was associated with the West Indies team in India and for the first time the masses in India were talking about the Caribbean country.

"Shaggy and Chaka Khan performed here at the opening but there was nothing to showcase T&T, no soca artiste nothing to send that message that this is our country and you should come visit," he said. He was however quick to add that Venky's would be looking into increasing their involvement with the Caribbean and T&T in particular.

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Postby VexXx Dogg » October 16th, 2009, 9:07 am

Sponsors will come a-begging when we buss some more throat in the league. :evil: :evil:

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Postby kevin@3ne_tuner » October 16th, 2009, 9:31 am

Daz normal when you going through a rough patch nobody knows you but when things going good everybody knows u.
I will call that typical Trinidadian behaviour and i don't think it will change.........

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Postby ~*Pãñdorą*~ » October 16th, 2009, 9:46 am

I wouldn't lie..
Corporate Sponsorship is at an all time low..
My boss's company has pulled back on sponsoring a lot of events this year because of the slow economy.

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Postby janfar » October 16th, 2009, 9:53 am

~*Pãñdorą*~ wrote:I wouldn't lie..
Corporate Sponsorship is at an all time low..
My boss's company has pulled back on sponsoring a lot of events this year because of the slow economy.


That why we dont sponsor nothing, so nobody could say anything bout we.

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Postby ~*Pãñdorą*~ » October 16th, 2009, 9:54 am

Wow.. and here I just thought it was because allyuh was some cheap Mofo's :lol:

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Postby janfar » October 16th, 2009, 10:03 am

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Postby hydroep » October 16th, 2009, 10:23 am

VexXx Dogg wrote:Sponsors will come a-begging when we buss some more throat in the league. :evil: :evil:


Sponsors wha'? Watch an' see how Gary Krunt an' de res' ah dem go run to the airport an' say how the team's success is due to the steps taken by "this" administration. Blasted Vultures..:lol:

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Postby bushwakka » October 16th, 2009, 10:29 am

^yup......spot ornnn....cud u imagine if sombody set sum kinda amazing 20/20 record for batting or bowling too?

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