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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Windies sticks with Narine for World Cup

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Em­bat­tled T&T off-spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine has been in­clud­ed in the West In­dies team for the up­com­ing World T20 in Sri Lan­ka, pend­ing test re­sults on an al­leged il­le­gal bowl­ing ac­tion.

Banned by the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) and the West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) af­ter he failed his last test on his bowl­ing ac­tion, Nar­ine has been do­ing re­ha­bil­i­ta­tive work and is ex­pect­ed to fly off dur­ing the Car­ni­val week­end to Loug­bor­ough Uni­ver­si­ty, in Eng­land to do an­oth­er test on his bowl­ing ac­tion.

If he pass­es this test, he will take his place in the West In­dies squad that will com­pete in the ICC World T20 in In­dia in March and April.

To­day, min­is­ter of sport Dar­ryl Smith will host a me­dia con­fer­ence at his of­fice along­side Su­ruj Ra­goonath, CEO of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB) and Nar­ine to an­nounce the Min­istry's as­sis­tance to the play­er in the form of elite re­ha­bil­i­ta­tive coach­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTCB, Nar­ine has been al­lowed to rep­re­sent his club, Queen's Park, in the Pre­mier 1 League com­pe­ti­tions as he un­der­goes re­ha­bil­i­ta­tive work on his ac­tion.

In ad­di­tion to Queen's Park coach David Fur­longe and na­tion­al as­sis­tant coach Kelvin Williams, Nar­ine has al­so been work­ing with bowl­ing con­sul­tant Carl Crowe.

Crowe is a for­mer right-arm off-break bowler for Berk­shire and Leices­ter­shire and for­mer as­sis­tant coach of the Eng­land Women's Crick­et team. The Min­istry's role in this ef­fort is to fa­cil­i­tate and ad­vance the play­er's re­turn to re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et

Once cleared, Nar­ine will join an­oth­er six Trinida­di­ans on the West In­dies team. The oth­ers are Dwayne Bra­vo, Dar­ren Bra­vo, De­nesh Ramdin, Lendl Sim­mons, Samuel Badree and Ke­iron Pol­lard (pend­ing a fit­ness test).

The team which is be­ing de­scribed as a dan­ger­ous one is packed with T20 stars and will be led by the St Lu­cian Dar­ren Sam­my. Al­so on the team is West In­dies Test and ODI cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er.

Mak­ing a re­turn to the squad is T&T Red Steel spin bowler Sulie­man Benn, who missed the tour to Sri Lan­ka.

There is no place for Bar­ba­di­an Dwayne Smith or T&T's fast bowler Ravi Ram­paul–both of whom were in the team that won the world ti­tle in 2012 in Sri Lan­ka.

West In­dies team: Dar­ren Sam­my (capt), Lendl Sim­mons, An­dre Fletch­er, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Dwayne Bra­vo, Ke­iron Pol­lard, Mar­lon Samuels, De­nesh Ramdin, Samuel Badree, Sulie­man Benn, Sunil Nar­ine, An­dre Fletch­er, Ja­son Hold­er, Jerome Tay­lor and Car­los Brath­waite.


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