Spin­ner Kavesh Kan­tas­ingh has fi­nal­ly made the T&T se­nior crick­et team. The for­mer Com­bined Cam­pus­es and Col­leges (CCC) play­er was cho­sen yes­ter­day to play on the week­end against Ja­maica at the Queen's Park Oval. Mak­ing a re­turn to the team is Aneil Kan­hai as well as Sher­win Gan­ga. All­rounder Rayad Em­rit has been cho­sen to lead in the ab­sence of reg­u­lar cap­tain De­nesh Ramdin. About a month ago the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) wrote the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) in­form­ing them that the left arm or­tho­dox spin­ner is avail­able for se­lec­tion for his coun­try. Kan­tas­ingh played for the CCC for many years in re­gion­al crick­et, as he at­tends UWI, read­ing for a de­gree in En­gi­neer­ing.

With a num­ber of the top play­ers miss­ing from the T&T line-up he is more than like­ly to make his de­but against the Ja­maicans on Fri­day.

Chair­man of the T&T se­lec­tion pan­el Dud­nath Ramkessoon wel­comes his pres­ence. "Kan­tas­ingh has been around for a while, play­ing for the CCC in re­gion­al crick­et and has got­ten a fair amount of suc­cess. "We need him at present be­cause he is in-form and of course his ex­pe­ri­ence is an as­set with this young team. This is a good op­por­tu­ni­ty for him with the na­tion­al team and we wish him all the best." Ramkessoon added that the re­turn of Gan­ga will al­so bol­ster the team is terms of ex­pe­ri­ence. Sher­win Gan­ga has the ex­pe­ri­ence and when we look at the present sit­u­a­tion, we want­ed ex­pe­ri­enced men in there. We are com­ing up against the de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons and lead­ers Ja­maica, so we have to be com­pet­i­tive." An­oth­er ex­pe­ri­enced play­er mak­ing a re­turn is left-hand­ed bats­man Aneil Kan­hai. The Moo­sai play­er has been in good form in the do­mes­tic Pre­mier­ship to earn his call up. An­oth­er play­er who has been get­ting runs in the Pre­mier­ship is all­rounder Kevon Coop­er and he too is on the team for the week­end.

T&T squad

Rayad Em­rit, Justin Guillen, Mar­lon Bar­clay, Im­ran Khan, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Kevon Coop­er, Sher­win Gan­ga, Gibran Mo­hammed, Shan­non Gabriel, Kavesh Kan­tas­ingh, Emile Ra­jah, Teshawn Cas­tro and Aneil Kan­hai.