Adams is captain of West Indies A

There is some method to what may seem selectorial madness in the choice of the 14 players for the West Indies A team to play India A in the first of two four-day representative matches from November 19-22.

Jimmy Adams has been included, and made captain, to test out the knee he injured during the Champions Trophy next month and to get him back into the game.

Daren Ganga, also simulaneously chosen for the New Zealand tour, is given a match since he is the only one of the batsmen in that team not on the recent round-the-world One-Day jaunts.

His match cricket since the Busta Cup final last March has been restricted to club competitions in Trinidad and two innings of three and 33 in the recent Red Stripe Bowl.

Both will not be available for the second Test in Guyana, November 30-December 3, for they would both be in New Zealand by then.

The rest of the squad is a strange mish-mash.

There are fringe West Indies players (Rawl Lewis, Nixon McLean, Lincoln Roberts, Chris Gayle), youngsters who have promised much but delivered little (Sylvester Joseph, Ramnaresh Sarwan), pacers of obvious potential but brief experience (Dwight Mais, Goldwin Prince), three recruits from the Youth World Cup side (Ryan Hinds, Brenton Parchment and Rodney Sooklal) and a wicket-keeper who is No. 2 for the Windwards (Wayne Phillip).

Squad: Jimmy Adams (captain), Daren Ganga, Brenton Parchment, Sylvester Joseph, Ryan Hinds, Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Lincoln Roberts, Wayne Phillip, Rawl Lewis, Nixon McLean, Dwight Mais, Goldwyn Prince, Rodney Sookal.