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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Holder appointed West Indies ODI captain

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ST JOHN'S–All-rounder Ja­son Hold­er has been ap­point­ed West In­dies One Day In­ter­na­tion­al cap­tain.

This was an­nounced by the West In­dies Crick­et Board yes­ter­day. The 23-year-old Hold­er takes over from Dwayne Bra­vo.

WICB thanked Bra­vo for his ser­vice to West In­dies crick­et in the ca­pac­i­ty of the ODI Cap­tain af­ter tak­ing over from Dar­ren Sam­my a year ago. The rec­om­men­da­tion for tran­si­tion of the cap­tain­cy role was made by the Clive Lloyd chaired se­lec­tion pan­el and was ap­proved by the Board of Di­rec­tors.

Lloyd said that Hold­er's ap­point­ment was with an eye to the fu­ture.

"Ja­son is one of the good, young play­ers who we be­lieve will form part of the long-term fu­ture of West In­dies Crick­et. We ex­pect him to be around for a very long time. He is a young man with a very bright fu­ture. We have in­vest­ed in him. He was part of High Per­for­mance Cen­tre and he al­so played for the West In­dies Un­der-19 team and the West In­dies A team," Lloyd said.

"He has played ODIs for the West In­dies be­fore and has done well. We know he will con­tin­ue to grow and demon­strate lead­er­ship. He has a very good crick­et­ing brain and has the mak­ings of a very good leader," said the for­mer leg­endary West In­dies Cap­tain as he gave the stamp of ap­proval to Hold­er. Lloyd added: "The se­lec­tors de­cid­ed that now is the time to make the tran­si­tion and Ja­son will have peo­ple around him to help and guide him. Some might say it's close to the time of next year's ICC Crick­et World Cup in Aus­tralia and New Zealand but we know that we have a good One-Day team which can do very well."

Hold­er has ap­peared in 21 ODIs and has tak­en 29 wick­ets. He is high­ly re­gard­ed in his na­tive Bar­ba­dos and the wider Caribbean as pos­sess­ing an as­tute crick­et­ing mind and de­sir­able lead­er­ship qual­i­ties. He pre­vi­ous­ly served as vice cap­tain of the West In­dies A team. Hold­er has al­so ap­peared in one Test and a T20 In­ter­na­tion­al. His first as­sign­ment will be the West In­dies five-match se­ries in South Africa which fol­lows the Test and T20 se­ries.

All se­lec­tions are con­tin­gent up­on play­ers sign­ing the Match Tour Con­tract.

Carter gets maid­en call

Jonathan Carter has re­ceived his maid­en over­seas tour call and Nars­ingh De­onar­ine, makes a come­back af­ter some strong re­cent per­for­mances.

Left hand­ed bats­man Leon John­son is re­tained and all-rounders Car­los Brath­waite and An­dre Rus­sell are al­so in­clud­ed in the squad which has the ex­pe­ri­enced top or­der duo of Chris Gayle (sub­ject to fit­ness test) and Dwayne Smith.

Fast bowl­ing will be han­dled by Jerome Tay­lor with sup­port from Shel­don Cot­trell. Sulie­man Benn is the lone spe­cial­ist spin­ner in the ODI squad. Ke­mar Roach, who was orig­i­nal­ly iden­ti­fied for se­lec­tion, has joined the in­jury list. A re­place­ment play­er will be named short­ly.

"We have de­cid­ed to in­tro­duce a few new play­ers to the in­ter­na­tion­al stage and once they de­liv­er the per­for­mances we are look­ing for we be­lieve we have the right kind of foun­da­tion to take the game for­ward," Lloyd not­ed. "We are in a sit­u­a­tion where we want to go up the lad­der in all three for­mats and aim to form teams which will take us there."

Sam­my re­mains asT20 skip­per

All-rounder Dar­ren Sam­my con­tin­ues to lead the West In­dies Twen­ty20 team. Samuel Badree and Kr­ish­mar San­tok­ie are al­so on the in­jury list. Ash­ley Nurse re­turns to the Windies squad af­ter a three year hia­tus. He will team up with coun­try­man Benn in han­dling spin du­ties.

"We have some very good crick­eters, who have done very well in the T20 for­mat. We will again be led by Dar­ren Sam­my, who led us to a World Cup. He has been the leader for quite a while and I'm sure he will gal­va­nize the play­ers to look to win the se­ries," Lloyd said.

"We will be with­out Badree and San­tok­ie, who have both been ex­cel­lent in the bowl­ing de­part­ment for us, but we have again in­tro­duced some new faces and ex­pect them to ac­quit them­selves very well."

Squads

ODI: Ja­son Hold­er (cap­tain), Sulie­man Benn, Car­los Brath­waite, Jonathan Carter, Shel­don Cot­trell, Nars­ingh De­onar­ine, Leon John­son, Chris Gayle, De­nesh Ramdin, An­dre Rus­sell, Mar­lon Samuels, Lendl Sim­mons, Dwayne Smith, Jerome Tay­lor, 15th mem­ber to be named short­ly.

T20: Dar­ren Sam­my (cap­tain), Sulie­man Benn, Car­los Brath­waite, Dwayne Bra­vo, Shel­don Cot­trell, An­dre Fletch­er, Chris Gayle (sub­ject to fit­ness test), Ja­son Hold­er, Ash­ley Nurse, Kieron Pol­lard, De­nesh Ramdin, An­dre Rus­sell, Mar­lon Samuels, Lendl Sim­mons, Dwayne Smith

SCHED­ULE OF MATCH­ES

De­cem­ber 26-30: 2nd Test–St George's Park, Port Eliz­a­beth

Jan­u­ary 2-6: 3rd Test–New­lands, Cape Town

Jan 9: 1st T20I–New­lands, Cape Town

Jan 11: 2nd T20I–New Wan­der­ers Sta­di­um, Jo­han­nes­burg

Jan 14: 3rd T20I–Kingsmead, Dur­ban

Jan 16: 1st ODI–Kingsmead, Dur­ban

Jan 18: 2nd ODI–New Wan­der­ers Sta­di­um, Jo­han­nes­burg

Jan 21: 3rd ODI–Buf­fa­lo Park, East Lon­don

Jan 25: 4th ODI–St George's Park, Port Eliz­a­beth

Jan 28: 5th ODI–Su­per­Sport Park, Cen­tu­ri­on?


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