Jamaica's wicket keeper-batsman Carlton Baugh Jr. - File
JAMAICA'S CRICKETERS left the island yesterday for today's launch of the Stanford Twenty/20 tournament in Antigua.
Carlton Baugh Jr., Donovan Pagon and Xavier Marshall, the only players with international experience, head the squad of 13 players.
Baugh, the Jamaica and West Indies wicketkeeper/batsman, has played five Test matches and 12 one-day internationals (ODIs).
Marshall and Pagon have between them two Test matches each, along with 10 and three ODIs respectively.
The travelling party also includes acting captain Tamar Lambert, wicketkeeper and opening batsman Dean Morgan, off-spinner Bevon Brown, leg spinner Odean Brown, openers Shawn Findlay, Xavier Marshall, Damion Ebanks, fast bowlers Fabian Forbes and Oral Ranking, left-arm spinners Nikita Miller and batsmen Lorenzo Ingram, Pagon, and Baugh.
The coach is Junior Bennett and manager Maurice Clarke.
Hard-hitting opening batsman Chris Gayle, captain Wavell Hinds, Marlon Samuels and Jermaine Lawson will join the squad for the opening match against Bermuda on July 21.
Meanwhile, Jamaica will face Antigua in a Twenty/20 practice match at the new Sir Vivian Richards Stadium tomorrow, before returning home on Monday.
