For­mer cap­tain Daren Gan­ga has been named in a 15-mem­ber Trinidad and To­ba­go crick­et squad for their sec­ond round re­gion­al four-day tour­na­ment match against the Wind­ward Is­lands start­ing to­mor­row at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain. The na­tion­al se­lec­tors head­ed by Dud­nath Ramkessoon met yes­ter­day and an­nounced the squad which is ex­pect­ed to be trimmed to 13 to­day af­ter a na­tion­al team train­ing ses­sion at the Oval start­ing at 9 am. Gan­ga, the most suc­cess­ful na­tion­al crick­et cap­tain in T&T crick­et his­to­ry re­signed his po­si­tion af­ter the na­tion­al team re­turned from par­tic­i­pat­ing in the 2011 Nokia Cham­pi­ons League T20 in In­dia last Sep­tem­ber but in­di­cat­ed he will make him­self avail­able to play un­der the new cap­tain.

How­ev­er lack of form in the short­est form of the game saw him be­ing omit­ted from the na­tion­al T20 team for the 2012 Caribbean Cham­pi­onships last month which T&T won for the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year. But Gan­ga has shown a re­turn to form with sev­er­al use­ful knocks in the Pre­mier League 50-Overs com­pe­ti­tion play­ing for Ale­scon Comets of Char­lieville, cen­tral Trinidad which has earned him a call up es­pe­cial­ly since sev­er­al lead­ing T&T bats­men have been side­lined through in­jury and on over­seas du­ty in the Bangladesh Pre­mier League T20.

Ramkessoon said yes­ter­day T&T stars Dwayne Bra­vo and Kieron Pol­lard would not be avail­able for se­lec­tion be­cause their BPL clubs have not grant­ed them a re­lease as the com­pe­ti­tion heads in­to the cru­cial se­mi-fi­nal stage. Open­ing bats­men Lendl Sim­mons, Adri­an Barath and Ravi Ram­paul have all been ruled out be­cause of in­jury while cap­tain/wick­et­keep­er De­nesh Ramdin, who split the web­bing on his hand against Bar­ba­dos last week­end will play but is un­like­ly to stand be­hind the stumps.

T&T Squad:

De­nesh Ramdin (cap­tain), Justin Guillen, Im­ran Khan, Daren Gan­ga, Daren Bra­vo, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Rayad Em­rit, Stephen Kat­wa­roo, Gibran Mo­hammed, Sunil Nar­ine, Emile Ra­jah, Shan­non Gabriel, Mar­lon Bar­clay, Daron Cruick­shank, Teshawn Cas­tro.

Of­fi­cials:

Omar Khan (man­ag­er), Kelvin Williams (coach), Ronald Rogers (Train­er), Oba Gul­ston (phys­io­ther­a­pist)