PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):

The Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) is awaiting word from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) about staging a West Indies Twenty20 Championship at year end.

TTCB president Deryck Murray said his board has approached the WICB to stage the regional tournament in T&T ahead of the regional first-class series in mid-January 2010.

"We have sent in a proposal to the WICB to stage the regional T20 cricket series in Trinidad and Tobago from December 27 this year," Murray said.

"We have sent in dates that would see the tournament concluded by January 10, 2010, and this would give them enough time to stage the regional first-class series from the middle of January," Murray said.

The former West Indies wicketkeeper said they are "awaiting word" from the WICB about the timing of the event, since the regional governing body has already agreed to stage the tournament.

"There have been discussions at the board level into staging a regional T20 series and they have agreed to do such. I guess they would have to enter into talks with prospective sponsors and would be looking at the feasibility of staging the tournament here," he said.

"Whoever is the sponsor would be the key in determining where the tournament is played. If, for example, they get a sponsor from Jamaica then the tournament might most likely be played across there. If they get one from America, they may want it up there, so we just have to wait and see what happens," Murray said.

Murray expects decisions - regarding the T20 proposal - to be made at a November 8 WICB meeting.

The winners of the regional T20 tournament would go forward to play in the lucrative Champions League T20 (CLT20).

T&T contested the CLT20 in India this month through their capture of the Stanford T20 title in February last year.