Vin­ode Mam­chan

West In­dies leg-spin­ner Samuel Badree will miss the two T20 match­es to be played in Sri Lan­ka lat­er this month as he has con­tract­ed the dengue fever.

Badree speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day said: "I have con­tract­ed dengue fever and have con­tact­ed the West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) and in­formed them that I will be un­able to trav­el to Sri Lan­ka to play the T20s."West In­dies will face Sri Lan­ka in two match­es, the first be­ing on Mon­day, No­vem­ber 9 at Pallekele and the sec­ond on Thurs­day, No­vem­ber 12 at the Pre­madasa Sta­di­um, Colom­bo.

Badree was ex­pect­ed to be a ma­jor weapon for the West In­dies in the se­ries, as he bowled bril­liant­ly in the fi­nals of the World T20, in 2012, when the West In­dies de­feat­ed Sri Lan­ka at home.

Badree was due to leave the Caribbean yes­ter­day for Sri Lan­ka and with the news of his dengue com­ing to hand over the week­end, the WICB se­lec­tors might just keep back one of the play­ers from the ODI squad, in­stead of fly­ing out a re­place­ment from the Caribbean.

The oth­er play­ers who flew out from the Caribbean yes­ter­day were Dwayne Bra­vo and Ke­iron Pol­lard from T&T and skip­per Dar­ren Sam­my from St Lu­cia.The man to re­place Badree is the Guyanese leg-spin­ner De­ven­dra Bishoo who was cho­sen for the ODI squad, so he is still in Sri Lan­ka.

Bishoo bowled bril­liant­ly for the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors in the 2015 Caribbean Pre­mier League CPL T20 tour­na­ment, so he has proven in ca­pa­bil­i­ties in the short­est for­mat of the game.The West In­dies are cur­rent­ly ranked fourth on the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) T20 rank­ings and if they de­feat the top side in this for­mat Sri Lan­ka, they will move in­to sec­ond place.

The West In­dies are a feared side in T20 crick­et as can be seen in their rak­ings, while they con­tin­ue to strug­gle in Tests, ranked eight and ODIs al­so ranked eight.