Daren Ganga

Daren Ganga came to the West Indies set up as a young promising opening batsman from Trinidad & Tobago. He had a compact technique that enabled him to play all the strokes and took his First-Class run-tally to 10137. However, a talented batter like Ganga could never replicate his calibre on the highest level and ended with 48 Tests and 35 ODIs under his belt. 

The Trinidad-born came to the international stage as a 19-year-old when Ganga made his Test debut on the tour of South Africa in 1998. A couple of months later, he made his ODI debut but remained irregular until 2001. 

Ganga made his first statement on the world level when he scored 89 against Zimbabwe in the Bulawayo Test and backed with another half-century versus the same opposition, this time in the 50-over format. 

Although he made that breakthrough performance in the 2003 home series against Australia to score back-to-back hundreds in the longest format. While the talented opener saw another downfall that axed him out of the national side. 

After that, Ganga made a solid comeback in 2006, after leading T&T to the Carib Beer Cup triumph. He returned to the West Indies team to score his best Test score of 135 runs against India at Basseterre, but Ganga’s biggest enemy returned and got dropped. 

However, the veteran of domestic circles went back to his Trinidad & Tobago team until he retired in 2012. Post hanging up the boots, Ganga became a renowned cricket commentator and a successful philanthropist. 

(As of May 2021)