West Indies Trials
December 5th 2008

Taddy’, Simmo, Pollard missing from trials

Three West Indies players will be missing from this weekend’s trial match organised by the T&T Cricket Board, to select the national team for the upcoming Carib Beer Series which bowls off on January 9.

Left-arm spinner Dave Mohammed, opening batsman Lendl Simmons and hard-hitting allrounder Kieron Pollard will miss the match which will be played Saturday and Sunday at the National Cricket Centre in Balmain, Couva, from 10 am.

According to a source close to the T&TCB, Mohammed has been given an extended week’s rest, Simmons is on the injured list, while Pollard has been selected on the West Indies team for the One-Day series against New Zealand.

Pollard is expected to fly out from New York to Auckland next week.. T&T captain Daren Ganga will again heads the list of trialists. T&T plays its opening match of the series against Barbados from January 9-12.

Invitees: Daren Ganga, Darren Bravo, Gibran Mohammed, Shannon Gabriel, Atiba Alert, Theodore Modeste, William Perkins, Magnum Nanan, Imran Khan, Rakesh Maharaj, Sherwin Ganga, Richard Kelly, Amit Jaggernauth, Justin Guillen, Samuel Badree, Daron Cruikshank, Kevon Cooper, Mario Belcon, Anthony Balgobin, Visham Ramroop, Adrian Barath, Rayad Emrit, Ravi Rampaul, Navin Stewart, Rishi Bachan, Jason Mohammed, Sunil Narine, Sanjiv Gooljar, Dane Teelucksingh, Rishaad Harris.