[4] Ganga made his first-class debut for Trinidad and Tobago on 21 February 1997, against Guyana at Queen's Park Oval aged 18.
[5] His teammates included Phil Simmons, Brian Lara, Mervyn Dillon and Ian Bishop.
After making 68 against Jamaica earlier in the season he came into Trinidad and Tobago's final game with his side needing a big score.
[7] Ganga was named in the side for the 3rd Test at Durban and batted at 6, behind established players like Lara, Hooper and Chanderpaul.
He later appeared for the West Indies A in their 2000 series against Pakistan, where he made a pair of 50's, and then against South Africa A. Ganga soon earn a recall for the Windies' 2000/01 tour of Australia.
He had been in good form in domestic cricket for Trinidad and Tobago, scoring a century in his opening game against Barbados and making 80 against South Africa for the Busta Cup XI.
[2] With Ganga at the helm the Windies A drew against Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, India and Somerset, lost to Sri Lanka, Kent and Derbyshire and won against British Universities, Sussex, Yorkshire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire.
In good batting conditions the Australians had put on 576 runs in their first innings and the West Indies, having lost opener Devon Smith for a duck were staring down the barrel when Ganga came to the crease.
As T&T's captain he later made 3 hundreds in the 2007 Carib Beer Cup, where in the final game he scored 120 and 44 to share the Man of the Match award with Ravi Rampaul.
The other candidates were Denesh Ramdin, Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Sylvester Joseph, and Brian Lara.
[19] With Brian Lara having retired, and after steering T&T to two regional one day titles in three years, Ganga was appointed West Indies vice captain to Ramnaresh Sarwan for the upcoming 2007 summer tour to England.
He went on to skipper Trinidad and Tobago to the 2008 Stanford 20/20 title and later romp to a seven wicket victory, over Barbados in the final, to lift the 2008–09 WICB Cup.
[20] With that win, T&T qualified for the 2009 Champions League Twenty20 where as captain Ganga steered them to the tournament's runners up spot.
[21][22][23] Ganga is of South Asian descent, his family migrating in Indian indenture ships to Trinidad.