For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go and West In­dies cap­tain, Daren Gan­ga, has called out the T&T Red Force se­lec­tors for pick­ing vet­er­an bats­man Ja­son Mo­hammed in its squad. In a post to his Face­book page on Thurs­day, Gan­ga said the se­lec­tors of the na­tion­al crick­et team should of­fer op­por­tu­ni­ties to younger play­ers.

Mo­hammed was among 10 play­ers re­tained by the T&T se­lec­tors as Crick­et West In­dies host­ed the Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­eters draft last Thurs­day for the Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Board Fran­chis­es.

Each fran­chise draft­ed five play­ers to com­plete its 15-mem­ber squads for an in­ter­im three (3) month pe­ri­od ahead of the 2023 CG Unit­ed Su­per50 Cup, sched­uled to take place in Oc­to­ber 2023.

Gan­ga wrote on Face­book, “Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Crick­et Se­lec­tors, please ex­plain to me and the na­tion­al pub­lic why Ja­son Mo­hammed con­tin­ues to play FC crick­et for our coun­try.”

He went fur­ther in the post, “This guy has played in the FC for­mat since 2006 (17 years) and Av­er­ages 29 at a bat­ter and at the age of 36-37 still fea­tures in our na­tion­al squad? Come on, we need to of­fer more chances to younger tal­ent­ed crick­eters who have a fu­ture in play­ing for West In­dies !!!!”

Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force: Dar­ren Bra­vo, Yan­nic Cari­ah, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Im­ran Khan, Bryan Charles, Khary Pierre, Ter­rance Hinds, Tion Web­ster, Shan­non Gabriel, An­der­son Phillip

Draft picks: Kjorn Ot­t­ley, Amir Jan­goo, Jyd Goolie, Cephas Coop­er, Shaaron Lewis