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Ganga a surprise pick in West Indies squad

The Barbados Nation

15 August 1998


West Indies cricket selectors sprung a major surprise yesterday when they named promising teenage Trinidad and Tobago batsman, Darren Ganga, in a 16-man squad for the tour of South Africa later this year.

There was also some surprise over the inclusion of opener Stuart Williams over Barbadian Sherwin Campbell.

The squad: Brian Lara (captain), Carl Hooper (vice-captain), Clayton Lambert, Philo Wallace, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Jimmy Adams, Junior Murray, Ridley Jacobs, Franklyn Rose, Courtney Walsh, Curtly Ambrose, Nixon McLean, Mervyn Dillon, Dinanath Ramnarine, Stuart Williams, Darren Ganga.


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