ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Trinidad and To­ba­go trio Jay­den Seales, Amir Jan­goo and Khary Pierre are in­clud­ed in a 17-play­er Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) high-per­for­mance train­ing camp, spe­cial­ly geared to­wards prepar­ing the West In­dies for their up­com­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against Sri Lan­ka next month.

The 10-day camp will be held at the Coolidge Crick­et Ground, An­tigua, from May 21 to 30, ahead of the three-match ODI se­ries, with the open­er set to bowl off on June 3 at Sabi­na Park in Ja­maica.

All three play­ers are al­ready in An­tigua with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force team, which con­tests the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship fi­nal against the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles from Sun­day, af­ter de­feat­ing the Bar­ba­dos Pride by 140 runs in the se­mi-fi­nal play-off on Wednes­day.

Jan­goo, a use­ful top-or­der bats­man and part-time wick­et­keep­er, could re­turn to the team hav­ing played the most re­cent of his five ODIs against Eng­land in Birm­ing­ham in May last year. Fast bowler Seales and Pierre, a left-arm spin­ner, both toured with the se­nior team to New Zealand last No­vem­ber.

Mean­while, ex­pe­ri­enced An­tiguan fast-bowler Alzarri Joseph is al­so set to end an al­most year-long lay­off from in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et. Due to a low­er-back in­jury, Joseph last played for the West In­dies in Ju­ly last year, when he fea­tured in a T20I against In­dia in Trinidad.

If he is se­lect­ed in the fi­nal 11 on June 3, it will mark ex­act­ly a year since he last played an ODI for the Windies.

Key play­ers, in­clud­ing Sher­fane Ruther­ford and Ro­mario Shep­herd, are cur­rent­ly play­ing in the on­go­ing In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL), and CWI ex­plained that those play­ers will be un­avail­able for the camp. As a re­sult, the fi­nal squad for the three-match ODI se­ries will be an­nounced at a lat­er date.

How­ev­er, one no­table in­clu­sion is emerg­ing West In­dies Un­der-19 tal­ent Vi­tel Lawes, who has been in­vit­ed as part of CWI’s con­tin­ued com­mit­ment to de­vel­op­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of re­gion­al play­ers.

In a state­ment, CWI said the train­ing camp forms a key part of the team’s wider strat­e­gy to strength­en per­for­mance in the for­mat over the next 18 months.

Head coach Daren Sam­my will lead the pro­gramme along­side his sup­port staff, while new­ly ap­point­ed fast-bowl­ing con­sul­tant Ot­tis Gib­son will of­fi­cial­ly be­gin his tenure dur­ing the camp, which will fo­cus on el­e­vat­ing per­for­mance stan­dards across all ar­eas. The camp will al­so fea­ture full-day ses­sions cen­tred on tech­ni­cal de­vel­op­ment, tac­ti­cal ex­e­cu­tion, match-sim­u­la­tion sce­nar­ios, phys­i­cal con­di­tion­ing, and strength­en­ing team co­he­sion. Play­ers will al­so work close­ly with CWI’s high-per­for­mance unit, in­clud­ing coach­ing, med­ical, sports sci­ence, and strength and con­di­tion­ing per­son­nel.

Di­rec­tor of Crick­et at CWI, Miles Bas­combe, un­der­scored the sig­nif­i­cance of the ini­tia­tive as the West In­dies in­ten­si­fy prepa­ra­tions for a de­mand­ing in­ter­na­tion­al sched­ule and their pur­suit of au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the 2027 ICC Men’s Crick­et World Cup.

“This camp rep­re­sents far more than prepa­ra­tion for a sin­gle se­ries. It is a strate­gic in­vest­ment in the iden­ti­ty, cul­ture, and con­sis­ten­cy we want this team to build over the next 18 months. Every ses­sion is de­signed to strength­en our white-ball sys­tems, sharp­en ex­e­cu­tion un­der pres­sure, and help po­si­tion the West In­dies for au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the 2027 ICC Men’s Crick­et World Cup,” Bas­combe said.

WEST IN­DIES TRAIN­ING SQUAD: Shai Hope, Jew­el An­drew, Ac­k­eem Au­guste, John Camp­bell, Kea­cy Car­ty, Ros­ton Chase, Matthew Forde, Justin Greaves, Amir Jan­goo, Alzarri Joseph, Shamar Joseph, Bran­don King, Vi­tel Lawes (de­vel­op­ment), Gu­dakesh Motie, Khary Pierre, Jay­den Seales, Shamar Springer.