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Come on Beckles
FORMER Red Force captain and West Indies opener Daren Ganga is questioning why a club in Trinidad and Tobago gets the majority of selections in the men’s national cricket team.
In the last match the Red Force played in the 2022 West Indies Four-Day Championship against the Leeward Islands Hurricanes, ten players in the starting XI were members of the Queen’s Park Cricket Club (QPCC). The match, which the Red Force lost by 187 runs, ended on Saturday at the Diego Martin Sports Complex.
Jason Mohammed, a PowerGen cricketer, was the only player in the starting line-up who is not a member of QPCC. Red Force captain Imran Khan, who played for Central Sports this season, contracted Covid19 before the match against the Hurricanes and was ruled out.
In the previous two rounds, Queen’s Park had eight players in the starting XI.
Red Force coach David Furlonge was in charge at Queen’s Park before his appointment to the national team in 2020.
QPCC has dominated domestically and produced Red Force and West Indies players.
On Monday, Ganga pointed out the lack of development of cricket in rural areas under the Azim Bassarath-led TT Cricket Board.
The former Alesco Comets player posted on social media, “TT 2022 Men’s Cricket Team is a virtual Queen’s Park Cricket Club playing XI and a coach also from that institution. Help me interpret local cricket development, Bassarath’s TTCB leadership, support and value to other clubs and players from remote areas. Is this fair/acceptable?”
