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Friday, July 4, 2025

Bra­vo, Pol­lard on T20 team...

Mohammed in revamped ODI Squad

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ST JOHN'S � Ja­son Mo­hammed has been re­called four years af­ter he made his de­but while Test bats­man Jer­maine Black­wood is poised for his first one-day ap­pear­ance, in a 15-man squad an­nounced yes­ter­day to con­test the three-match One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries in Sri Lan­ka start­ing next month.

Off-spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine, who had pulled out of the World Cup squad to con­tin­ue work on his ac­tion, has re­turned as part of eight changes to the side which reached the quar­ter-fi­nals of the ICC World Cup in Aus­tralia and New Zealand ear­li­er this year.

As ex­pect­ed, no room has been found for the Trinida­di­an duo of Dwayne Bra­vo and Kieron Pol­lard through they have been in­clud­ed in the 15-man Twen­ty20 squad, al­so an­nounced yes­ter­day.

Their ex­clu­sion from the ODI squad prompt­ed claims of "out­side in­ter­fer­ence" in the se­lec­tion process from head coach Phil Sim­mons and led to his sus­pen­sion on Mon­day.

Mo­hammed, mean­while, has been hand­ed a chance to re­vive his in­ter­na­tion­al ca­reer at age 29.

The right-han­der shone in the Su­per50 Cham­pi­onship ear­li­er this year, av­er­ag­ing 50 and stroking an un­beat­en cen­tu­ry in the fi­nal, as Red Force beat Guyana Jaguars.

Black­wood, 23, has played ten Tests where he av­er­ages 41 but has been giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty to trans­fer his at­tack­ing bat­ting in­to the short­er for­mat.

Nar­ine's re-in­clu­sion, one 13 months af­ter he played his last game for West In­dies, is a huge fil­ip for the re­gion­al side.

The right-armer's ac­tion has come un­der heavy in­ter­na­tion­al scruti­ny and af­ter be­ing called dur­ing last year's Cham­pi­ons League Twen­ty20, he opt­ed not to trav­el to the World Cup.

Mean­while, sev­er­al oth­er fa­mil­iar faces have re­turned to the squad. Leg-spin­ner De­ven­dra Bishoo, who re­cent­ly made his Test come­back, has been in­clud­ed four years since play­ing his last ODI while bats­man An­dre Fletch­er is back af­ter last suit­ing up in 2010.

Pac­er Ravi Ram­paul is al­so back, hav­ing not played since Oc­to­ber last year.

Test cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er al­so leads the one-day side.

All-rounder Dar­ren Sam­my, left out of the one-day squad, will take charge of the Twen­ty20 unit which al­so in­cludes leg-spin­ner Samuel Badree.

West In­dies will be play the first two ODIs in Colom­bo on Oc­to­ber 31 and No­vem­ber 4 be­fore clos­ing out with the fi­nal game in Pallekele on No­vem­ber 7.

The two T20s are sched­uled for No­vem­ber 10 Pallekele and No­vem­ber 12 in Colom­bo.

SQUADS:

ODI � Ja­son Hold­er (cap­tain), De­ven­dra Bishoo, Jer­maine Black­wood, Car­los Brath­waite, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Jonathan Carter, John­son Charles, An­dre Fletch­er, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Sunil Nar­ine, De­nesh Ramdin, Ravi Ram­paul, An­dre Rus­sell, Mar­lon Samuels, Jerome Tay­lor

T20I � Dar­ren Sam­my (cap­tain), Samuel Badree, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Dwayne Bra­vo, Jonathan Carter, John­son Charles, An­dre Fletch­er, Ja­son Hold­er, Sunil Nar­ine, Kieron Pol­lard, De­nesh Ramdin, Ravi Ram­paul, An­dre Rus­sell, Mar­lon Samuels, Jerome Tay­lor. (CMC)


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