The East Trinidad cricket team played first-class cricket from 1971 to 1979, competing in the Beaumont Cup and its successor competition the Texaco Cup.
In 1978–79 Tobago joined the competition in its final season of first-class status.
East Trinidad were successful immediately, winning four of their first five matches and taking the title in 1971–72 and 1976–77.
Their highest score was 128 by Alvin Corneal in their victorious 1971–72 final against South Trinidad, when he scored 50 out of a team total of 140, then 128 out of a total of 209, while Imtiaz Ali took 10 for 69 in the match (7 for 27 and 3 for 42), East Trinidad's best match figures.
[2] East Trinidad played five home matches, three of them at Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Ground, Saint Augustine and two at Princess Royal Park, Arima.