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Anthony Foster, Freelance Writer
XAVIER MARSHALL and Shawn Findlay struck timely centuries to secure places in Jamaica's squad for next week's Carib Beer Series match away to Trinidad & Tobago, while West Indies fast bowler Daren Powell has been omitted for disciplinary reasons.
Team manager Maurice Clarke said the player was suspended arising from an incident leading up to Jamaica's match against Guyana in the KFC Cup limited overs series in October. Powell was omitted from that game because of the said disciplinary incident, on which the manager did not elaborate.
However, three other Test players who recently toured Australia with the Windies, captain Wavell Hinds, Marlon Samuels and Jermaine Lawson, were named in Jamaica's team following the completion of the practice match between Wavell Hinds' XI and Tamar Lambert's XI at Melbourne Oval yesterday.
Jamaica's other Test batsman Chris Gayle, who is still recovering from the heart surgery he did Down Under, was also not named in the squad set to depart next Wednesday for Trinidad and Tobago.
Danza Hyatt also was left out in favour of Brenton Parchment. Both batsmen have struggled in Jamaica's two previous games with Hyatt scoring only 27 runs in four innings so far. Parchment scored 83 in his four Carib Beer innings.
Playing for Hinds' XI, Marshall and Findlay, who scored 29 and 70 against the Windwards, put on 206 runs for the first wicket.
MADE EVEN 100
Marshall made an even hundred off 116 deliveries in 213 minutes, hitting nine fours and four sixes with the last coming off Dwight Stewart to bring up triple figures, immediately after which he retired.
Findlay, who like Marshall retired, scored 101 off 116 deliveries in 222 minutes, during which he struck 15 fours and two sixes.
Hinds was left not out on 22 and David Bernard Jnr. on seven. Samuels was the lone man out, caught behind for one run by Carlton Baugh off Stewart (1-49).
Earlier, Lambert's XI resumed on 253 for four and carried on to 318 for nine before declaring.
Gareth Breese made 39 and Carlton Baugh 34 against Samuels 4-20, Jerome Taylor 2-67 and Lawson 2-86.
Squad: Hinds (captain), Marshall, Lambert, Bernard, Samuels, Breese, Findlay, Nikita Miller, Taylor, Lawson, Brenton Parchment and Andrew Richardson.
