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ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Selection Panel of Cricket West Indies announced changes to the Windies squad for the three-match T20 International series on the tour of New Zealand.

These changes are due to injury and unavailability.

Left-arm fast bowler Sheldon Cotterell will replace pacer Ronsford Beaton, who has been forced to return home with a side strain.

Left-handed batsman Shimron Hetmyer will replace allrounder Kieron Pollard, who is unavailable due to personal reasons.

The series bowls off on Friday at Saxton Oval in Nelson. Frist ball is 3pm (10pm Thursday Eastern Caribbean/9pm Thursday Jamaica).

FULL SQUAD
1. Carlos Brathwaite (captain), 2.Samuel Badree, 3.Sheldon Cotterell, 4. Rayad Emrit
5. Andre Fletcher, 6.Chris Gayle, 7.Shimron Hetmyer, 8.Shai Hope
9. Jason Mohammed, 10.Ashley Nurse, 11.Rovman Powell, 12.Jerome Taylor
13. Chadwick Walton,14.Kesrick Williams

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Wow Pollard

In reply to Runs Seems like he just doesn't want to play.....

Beaton side strain...

dats the wow.

In reply to cricketest

Pelt too hard

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Hetmyer is one lucky dude

In reply to Walco He shared his Pepperpot with the rest of WI bwoys!

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com


Weakest WI T-20 team in a very very long time..thats prolly why Pollard bailed.

Gayle Walton Fletcher..thats all the batting..damn this team's paper thin


Gayle
Walton
Fletcher
Powell
JMO
Carlos
Emritt
Nurse
Badree
Williams
Cotterel

I just cant see Hope or Hety in the starting XIs...WI getting whipped soundly in every single game on tour..damn

Hope
Hetmyer
Taylor

Allyuh see what dem Trinis doing to our cricket? One after de other having personal issues! CWI should done with all of them!

In reply to BeatDball

Correction. He doesn't want to play for the west indies. He always plays for his team in the CPL.

Once again why is Lewis omitted?

In reply to DIEHARD

All I seeing is Gayle for batting.. no other batsman in the caribbean?

Wham to Charles? Surely he could make that jokey squad?

Oh well more licks..

Got a feeling Gayle gonna get axe when NZ put a trashing on them.. after all they will look to blame a senior player..

In reply to WestDem

Lil Bravo started this "personal reasons" train. Pollard just hopped on for the ride.

personally, I wouldn’t want to play for Dave cameron’s Team

Less Trinis...no problem. Besides...wunna have Jason Mohammed.

Windies will still win this series in a canter

In reply to imusic

u disowning Jason now

In reply to tc1

I own no one

Do u?

In reply to imusic

Check your postings

Dwayne Smith would have been very helpful here...it was a stupid move for him to retire just becuz of Browne. He played in CPL and would have been eligible here.

In reply to analyst-kid

DR Smith is..now.. necessary..this squad like school on a Sunday..no class

Can anyone explain to me where Lewis is???

In reply to tc1

U own MY postings?

Absence of Evin Lewis is a mystery for me

Do they have a travel agent who can work out all the complicated travel back and forth?

In reply to jacksparrow

Lewis was reported as injured, that is why Kyle Hope played in the last ODI.

In reply to WestDem

Cussbud

The Trini's are allowed such.No one wants ta play fer the Big EDiot.

Who in their right mind would want to be with this bunch of unprepared players that CWI is sending to the slaughter? I feel sorry fer the players.

When Trini's play, you scream too much on the team.

Take ya cutarse and have another drink.


Lil B, Big B, Polly, Narine, Lewis personal reasons.

We go give ya Badree and Mohammed.

In reply to DIEHARD

On what kinda form is Powell,Walton and JMO pushing that they can bat in front Hope?

In the last ODI series only Gayle and Hope look accomplished. Hety will score at least a run a ball but I have not seen this so far from Walton and JMO.

Powell has to bat below with Carlos.

Gayle
Walton
Fletcher
Hope
Powell
Carlos
Emritt
Nurse
Badree
Cottrell
Williams

You HAVE to play Hope. You need at least Three GUYS at the top who can bat 10 overs consistently at the top to carry you to 70-80 in the first ten overs, then the power hitters to carry you over 150 in the next tento 180.

Gayle can bat 10 overs scoring at a good rate. Not seen it from Walton yet, hoping that Fletcher brings that last WC form....but you KNOW Hope can bat 10 overs for sure at a run a ball if he tries.

In reply to hawk

ok guess I missed that. We should be good at this format, but I guess a lot depends on Gayle to stick around.Walton maybe.I done forget the beatdown, we starting fresh again!
Rally

In reply to analyst-kid

Watch the ride if Hope plays

Which T20 league has he ever played or scored heavily in?

This just a hunch that he can do a Jacques Kallis?

In reply to DIEHARD

No hunch. Analyst basin he hope purely because he bajan

In reply to imusic

Which ODI player who can occupy the crease fails to occupy the crease in T20s?

Hope's role is similar to Samuels...hold the innings together should Gayle fail.

Hope avgs 33.20 in Tests and 35.70 in ODIs...all I am analyzing is that he should be able to avg 25-30 with a SR of 80-100 in T20s above Dwayne Bravo (24.29 SR 116.41) and Pollard (20.21 SR 132.1 in T20s.

In reply to analyst-kid

What's the sample size analyst-kid?

What a misnomer lol

What sample size? The team is packed with power hitters Gayle (who is exceptional cause he could hold an end at this level) Fletcher,Walton,Powell and Carlos.

Common sense tells me against NZ we need someone who is reliable enough to hold one end for 10-20 overs otherwise we will be 25/6 in quicktime if Gayle falls cheaply!

In reply to DIEHARD

Hopes stats are from 14 matches where as Pollard's and Bravo's are from 70 odd matches

Statistically..not reasonable to compare all 3.



You can't compare Hope's potential..to Samuels actual performance.

Samuels performed in T-20s before playing a T-20I


The kind of innings you are talking about has been done by Samuels time and time again.

And tbh..he has probably failed in his approach..more often than he has succeeded.

What's the story here? Did Pollard say he was available when they were naming the squad and just pull out now for personal reasons? I can't imagine CWI naming players in a squad without consulting on their availability.... but then again!!!

In reply to Kay

With the unavailability of so many players, experience and in form Dwayne Smith should have been called up.

In reply to Kay

With the unavailability of so many players, experience and in form Dwayne Smith should have been called up.

In reply to Kay

With the unavailability of so many players, experience and in form Dwayne Smith should have been called up.

In reply to WestDem
We've been saying that for a very long time bro. Deryck Murray nearly did it in 2009