Trinidad and Tobago's captain Daren Ganga - file

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):

A high-ranking cricket official here has called on regional selectors to review their stance on Daren Ganga's West Indies career.

Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Cricket Board's chief executive, Forbes Persaud, contended that the 29-year old had proven he still had a valuable contribution to make to the West Indies team.

"We continue to dominate cricket at the regional level and it still amazes me that we have only one pick on the West Indies team," Persaud said during his address yesterday to welcome the successful T&T one-day team back from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Cup tournament in Guyana.

"Our captain, Daren Ganga, has shown that he is the best leader in the Caribbean and I am calling on the West Indies Cricket Board to rethink their position on Ganga.

"While we continue to do well at the regional level, the West Indies cricket team continues to languish at the bottom of the international table. It is time that the WICB take note of what is going on in Trinidad and Tobago and try to correct the problems in West Indies cricket."

Ganga has played 48 Tests and 35 ODIs but has been overlooked since the tour of South Africa in January this year.

The new regional one-day champions returned here yes-terday to a hero's welcome, following their emphatic win over Barbados in the final of the WICB Cup.

Done us proud

T&T, also the reigning regional Twenty20 champions, beat Barbados on Sunday by seven wickets at Guyana's National Stadium to win the nine-team tournament.

Ganga's side touched down around midday at the Piarco International Airport and were met by Persaud and board official Richard Ramkissoon.

"You all have done us very proud at the Cricket Board and you have also made the people of T&T very proud," Persaud told the team.