Credits
West Indies named Fabien Allen and Denesh Ramdin in the limited-overs team for the upcoming series against India with Kieron Pollard set to continue leading the side. The T20I side will continue to have Brandon King and Hayden Walsh who were part of the team that lost 1-2 to Afghanistan earlier this month in Lucknow.
Chris Gayle, who had been in contention to play this series, told he is unavailable to the selectors citing the need to take “a break” to find out what he wanted to do in 2020. Like Gayle, other T20 mercenaries, Dwayne Bravo and Andre Russell, remain missing.
“We have three matches in each format, so we wanted to give each squad a chance to compete against India,” head coach, Phil Simmons said. “No disrespect to Afghanistan, but facing India will be a more difficult series. Our players really got the hang of things, with the 3-0 series win in the ODIs [against Afghanistan], and I believe we will move from strength to strength.”
Simmons added: “In the T20s this will be another chance for them to play and develop, and again, with no disrespect to Afghanistan, this should be a stronger T20 country and we will look to see how they perform against India. The next ICC T20 World Cup is in Australia and the one after that is here in India so there is a lot of preparation to be done for first for Australia. We have given the players here a chance in this series and we know we have players outside who may be coming in later on as well, so it’s good to give those here another opportunity.”
T20I squad: Fabian Allen, Sheldon Cottrell, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Brandon King, Evin Lewis, Keemo Paul, Khary Pierre, Kieron Pollard (capt), Nicholas Pooran, Denesh Ramdin, Sherfane Rutherford, Lendl Simmons, Hayden Walsh Jr, Kesrick Williams
ODI squad: Sunil Ambris, Roston Chase, Sheldon Cottrell, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Shai Hope, Alzarri Joseph, Brandon King, Evin Lewis, Keemo Paul, Khary Pierre, Kieron Pollard (capt), Nicholas Pooran, Romario Shepherd, Hayden Walsh Jr.