ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – West Indies players Jason Holder and Alzarri Joseph will depart early from the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe. The experienced duo will miss the last two Super Six matches as they return to the Caribbean.

This is with the view of managing the workloads of the two bowlers ahead of the upcoming Cycle Pure Agarbathi Test Series against India. West Indies have two matches remaining in the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifiers against Oman on Wednesday and Sri Lanka on Friday.

Lead Selector, the Most Hon. Dr Desmond Haynes said: “Jason and Alzarri are two of our leading bowlers in all formats. We have a full schedule for the upcoming series against India, where we begin the new ICC World Test Championship, then followed by the CG United ODIs and the five T20Is. Therefore, we had dialogue, and it was felt the best move at this time is to have two of our leading bowlers return early from Zimbabwe.”

Pity they didn’t keep Holder home for the qualifiers. The man was dead weight throughout

I reported on that last Tuesday, after hearing the CEO speaking about the two players early return to the region.
That should tell us about the team selection for the test series.

In reply to Acid

My formula is ODI players should play test. Those 2 formats are close. Scrimage is another format altogether.

Both players should have left last week as soon as we were ill treated by Scotland. I also believe Chase should have left as well and ought to be a must play player for the Dominica test. His last test in Dominica against Pakistan was brilliant with both bat and ball and if Haynes and selectors have already decided to leave him out it would be confirmation that Hon Desmond Haynes has a very poor memory and doesn’t use his computer to gathers stats and do research.

In reply to Sylobaby

In reply to Acid

Lol…maybe Haynes also has a vision problem and can’t see what’s taking place on the ground let alone to write notes like Sammy lol

So what was the plan if we were in a situation to qualify if we beat SL?

In reply to camos

Zero chance to qualify ....

In reply to camos

Flip a dice. Test series which we will lose or qualification for a World Cup which we will lose