ST GEORGE'S-Left arm spin­ner Sulie­man Benn has been dropped from the West In­dies squad for the sec­ond Test against Eng­land start­ing in Grena­da on Tues­day.The lanky Bar­ba­di­an had dis­ap­point­ing match fig­ures of two wick­ets for 200 runs in the first Test which end­ed in a draw on Fri­day.Se­lec­tors have draft­ed in T&T fast bowler Shan­non Gabriel, leav­ing De­ven­dra Bishoo as the on­ly front­line spin­ner in the Windies squad.

The switch from Benn to Gabriel rep­re­sents the on­ly change to the 14-man squad an­nounced by the West In­dies Crick­et Board yes­ter­day."We saw a re­al­ly good dis­play on the fi­nal day, which earned us a draw. It was a tough sit­u­a­tion, but Ja­son Hold­er played re­al­ly well to get his first Test cen­tu­ry and we al­so saw a coura­geous ef­fort from the cap­tain (De­nesh Ramdin) and Ke­mar Roach at the end," said new West In­dies head coach Phil Sim­mons

"We had some good mo­ments in the first match and as a team we will look to im­prove when we play the sec­ond Test. We be­lieve we can win, and we will play to win. We know the ar­eas where we need to im­prove and what is re­quired to win."The sec­ond Test starts on Tues­day at the Grena­da Na­tion­al Sta­di­um.

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