Garrick dumped from Red Stripe team

KINGSTON: Cricket selectors yesterday named a 28-man squad to play in the upcoming Red Stripe Bowl, leaving off experienced opening batsman Leon Garrick. Though Garrick had a good season last year, he was lacking  in form in the shorter version of the game this year, said Ruddy Williams, chairman of the selection board. “Under the circumstances, we had to give a younger player a chance,” Williams said. Garrick scored 161 runs in six matches in the 2002 Red Stripe Bowl, passing the half-century mark twice with a topscore of 79. The right-hander’s form slumped in the regional four-day tournament in the last two seasons, putting him out of favour also with West Indies selectors. In 2001, Garrick made his lone Test appearance at Sabina Park against South Africa after impressing the West Indies board with strong performance in the year’s regional Busta Cup  tournament.

Also left off the list was fastbowler Jermaine Lawson, whose bowling action is being examined by the International Cricket Council. The new squad includes several new faces, including left-arm fastbowler Krishmar Santokie, now playing for Jamaica in the West Under-19 team in Guyana. The West Indies Cricket Board have not yet announced fixtures for the regional Red Stripe Bowl tournament. Barbados are the defending champions.

The Squad: batsmen Robert Samuels, Brenton Parchment, Chris Gayle, Wavell Hinds, Marlon Samuels, Shawn Findlay, Tamar Lambert, Ricardo Powell, Donovan Pagon, Tyson Gordon; wicketkeepers Carlton Baugh, Keith Hibbert, Matthew Sinclair; all-rounders David Bernard, Gareth Breese, Vinord Woolcock, Bevon Brown, Odean Brown, Lorenzo Ingram, Krishmar Santokie, Evon McInnis; fastbowlers Darren Powell, Jerome Taylor, Kamal Dennis, Andrew Richardson, Dwight Washington; offspinner Ramon Hutchinson and left-arm spinner Phillip Keating.