Vin­ode Mam­chan

West In­dies T20 cap­tain Dar­ren Sam­my has been re­tained for the up­com­ing In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil World T20 tour­na­ment in In­dia in March.

The West In­dies se­lec­tors, head­ed by Sir Clive Lloyd, are hap­py to keep Sam­my for the pre­mier tour­na­ment. The West In­dies are cur­rent­ly ranked num­ber one in the ICC rank­ings for T20s and Sam­my has been the man in charge dur­ing this climb.

There were spec­u­la­tions that Sam­my may have been re­placed by Test and ODI cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er but the se­lec­tors opt­ed for ex­pe­ri­ence go­ing in­to the World T20.

Sam­my was at the helm of the team that won the ti­tle in 2012 in Sri Lan­ka and reached the se­mi-fi­nals in 2014 in Bangladesh. He re­tired from Test crick­et on May 9 last year but is still avail­able to play ODIs for the re­gion­al team.He was left out of the West In­dies team for the ODIs against Sri Lan­ka in No­vem­ber.

The World T20 gets go­ing on March 16 for the West In­dies, as they come up against Eng­land in Mum­bai. They will al­so face Sri Lan­ka, South Africa and a qual­i­fi­er from the as­so­ciates.

The West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) is await­ing news on the re­sults of tests on Sunil Nar­ine's bowl­ing ac­tion be­fore an­nounc­ing their team.Nar­ine was banned from bowl­ing by the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) for an il­le­gal bowl­ing ac­tion. He is due to re­turn to Lough­bor­ough Uni­ver­si­ty lat­er this month to do tests on his ac­tion.

If he pass­es the test, he will be named on the team, as he has tremen­dous ex­pe­ri­ence of the In­di­an con­di­tions, hav­ing cam­paigned in the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) T20 since 2012.