Dolston Anthony Tuit (born 5 April 1986) is a

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er. Tuit is a right-handed

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who bowls right-arm

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. He was born on

Montserrat Montserrat ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, wit ...

. In 2006,

were invited to take part in the 2006 Stanford 20/20, whose matches held official

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status. Tuit made his Twenty20 debut for Montserrat in their first-round match against

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, with their first-class opponents winning the match by 8 wickets. Tuit scored a single run with the bat, before he was dismissed by

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. In January 2008, Montserrat were again invited to part in the 2008 Stanford 20/20, where Tuit made two further Twenty20 appearances, in a preliminary round match against the

Turks and Caicos Islands The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; and ) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and no ...

and in a first round match against Nevis. Against the Turks and Caicos Islands, he top-scored opening the batting in Montserrat's nine wicket victory, scoring 30 runs before he was dismissed by Henry Saunders. Against Nevis, he again opened the batting, scoring 16 runs in Montserrat's unsuccessful chase of 185 by Trevier Smithen. He later made a single first-class appearance for the

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against

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

in the

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. He scored 4 runs opening the batting in the Leeward Islands first-innings, before being dismissed by Jason Dawes, while in their second-innings he again opened the batting, scoring 17 runs before he was dismissed by Odean Brown. Jamaica won the match by 10 wickets.

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