Selection omission disappoints

Taranaki cricketer Peter Ingram is frustrated after being overlooked for the New Zealand A squad announced yesterday to tour India next month.

The Central Districts opening batsman enjoyed a rich vein of form last summer, scoring a career-best 247 in a four-day match against Northern Districts in Hamilton last November.

Ingram, who made the New Zealand Emerging Players side last year, then received a call-up to the A side for the series against England and scored a century in a one-day match in Palmerston North in March.

Yesterday, he told the Taranaki Daily News he was "very disappointed" to miss yesterday's squad."I rang [NZ Cricket elite coaching manager] John Wright and asked what the story was and he hummed and ha-ed for a bit.

"He said just to keep scoring runs and I was unlucky. I was just the guy who missed out.

"Yeah, it is [a bit frustrating]. I've scored 2500 runs at 55 in the past three year, so I don't know."

The squad includes one newcomer to the A side, Auckland leg-spinner Tarun Nethula, who was the top wicket taker in the State Championship last season.

NEW ZEALAND A (squad):

Peter Fulton (captain), Brent Arnel, Shane Bond, Neil Broom, Brendon Diamanti, Gareth Hopkins, Jamie How, Peter McGlashan, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Tarun Nethula, Aaron Redmond, Tim Southee, BJ Watling, Kane Williamson.

-with NZPA