Se­lec­tors have hand­ed shock re­calls to left-han­der Shim­ron Het­my­er and speed­ster Os­hane Thomas for the three-match One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries start­ing Thurs­day in Bar­ba­dos.

The 26-year-old Het­my­er has not fea­tured for West In­dies in near­ly a year and has not played a sin­gle ODI in two years while Thomas, al­so 26, re­turns to in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et af­ter an 18-month spell on the side­lines and near­ly 3-½ years away from ODIs.

They will be part of a 15-man squad led by Shai Hope which will be miss­ing the ser­vices of for­mer cap­tain Nicholas Pooran and mar­quee all-rounder Ja­son Hold­er.

Crick­et West In­dies said Mon­day the pair were “both un­avail­able for se­lec­tion.”

Het­my­er made head­lines last year when he was con­tro­ver­sial­ly dumped from the Twen­ty20 World Cup squad for Aus­tralia, af­ter miss­ing a resched­uled flight to join the team Down Un­der.

CWI said then se­lec­tors had “unan­i­mous­ly de­cid­ed” to re­move Het­my­er from the squad, to be re­placed by Shamarh Brooks.

Het­my­er av­er­ages 35 from 47 ODIs with five hun­dred.

Thomas, mean­while, fell off the wag­on af­ter burst­ing on­to the in­ter­na­tion­al scene five years ago, plagued in re­cent times by a lack of fit­ness and loss of form.

He has tak­en 27 wick­ets from 20 ODIs at an av­er­age of 32, with a sin­gle five-wick­et haul.

“We wel­come Os­hane and Shim­ron back in­to the group,” said chief se­lec­tor, the Most Ho­n­ourable Desmond Haynes.

“Both have played at the in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el be­fore, with some suc­cess, and we be­lieve they will fit well in­to the set-up.

“Os­hane brings pace and is a po­ten­tial wick­et-tak­er with the new ball. Shim­ron’s style of bat­ting will of­fer a lot, es­pe­cial­ly in the mid­dle stage of the in­nings and he is al­so a po­ten­tial fin­ish­er.”

Mean­while, CWI of­fered no rea­son for the un­avail­abil­i­ty of Pooran and Hold­er, both of whom were part of the failed World Cup qual­i­fy­ing cam­paign in Zim­bab­we last month.

Pooran is cur­rent­ly in the Unit­ed States where he has been play­ing fran­chise crick­et for MI New York in the in­au­gur­al Ma­jor League Crick­et.

Hold­er, a fix­ture for West In­dies in all for­mats, fea­tured in the two-Test se­ries against the In­di­ans which con­clud­ed here Mon­day with the drawn sec­ond Test.

The trio of fast bowler Jay­den Seales, leg-spin­ner Yan­nic Cari­ah and left-arm spin­ner Gu­dakesh Motie have all re­cov­ered from in­jury and have been in­clud­ed in the squad but all-rounder Keemo Paul has been ruled out with in­jury.

Kens­ing­ton Oval will host the first two match­es of the se­ries on Thurs­day and Sat­ur­day be­fore the teams re­turn here to Trinidad for the fi­nal match at the Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um on Au­gust 1.

West In­dies have not beat­en In­dia in an ODI se­ries in near­ly two decades

SQUAD – Shai Hope (cap­tain), Rov­man Pow­ell (vice cap­tain), Al­ick Athanaze, Yan­nic Cari­ah, Kea­cy Car­ty, Do­minic Drakes, Shim­ron Het­my­er, Alzarri Joseph, Bran­don King, Kyle May­ers, Gu­dakesh Motie, Jay­den Seales, Ro­mario Shep­herd, Kevin Sin­clair, Os­hane Thomas

(CMC)