T&T crick­eter Khary Pierre has been called up to the West In­dies Test squad while Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul has been re­called for the tour of In­dia.

Crick­et West In­dies has con­firmed the 15-mem­ber squad for the two-Test se­ries against In­dia from Oc­to­ber 2 to 14, with match­es sched­uled in Ahmed­abad and Del­hi. The se­ries is part of the ICC World Test Cham­pi­onship and marks the team’s first away as­sign­ment in the new cy­cle as well as its first Test tour of In­dia since 2018.

The squad in­cludes three changes from the re­cent se­ries against Aus­tralia. Open­ing bat­ter Chan­der­paul and bat­ter Al­ick Athanaze re­turn, while left-arm spin­ner Pierre has earned his maid­en Test se­lec­tion. Pierre was the lead­ing wick­et-tak­er in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship, claim­ing 41 wick­ets at an av­er­age of 13.56.

The se­lec­tors have opt­ed to rest spin­ner Gu­dakesh Motie ahead of a busy white-ball sched­ule, high­light­ed by the ICC T20 World Cup in Feb­ru­ary and March of 2026.

Cap­tain Ros­ton Chase will lead the team with Jomel War­ri­can named as vice-cap­tain. Head Coach Daren Sam­my not­ed the sig­nif­i­cance of the se­ries and the chal­lenge of play­ing against a high-ranked side in its home con­di­tions.

The full squad reads: Ros­ton Chase (Cap­tain), Jomel War­ri­can (Vice-Cap­tain), Kevlon An­der­son, Al­ick Athanaze, John Camp­bell, Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul, Justin Greaves, Shai Hope, Tevin Im­lach, Alzarri Joseph, Shamar Joseph, Bran­don King, An­der­son Phillip, Khary Pierre, and Jay­den Seales.

The team man­age­ment unit in­cludes Head Coach Daren Sam­my, As­sis­tant Coach­es Floyd Reifer (Bat­ting), Ravi Ram­paul (Bowl­ing), and Ray­on Grif­fith (Field­ing). Team Man­ag­er Rawl Lewis, Phys­io­ther­a­pist Neil Bar­ry, Strength and Con­di­tion­ing Coach Ronald Rogers, Mas­sage Ther­a­pist Fitzbert Al­leyne, Team An­a­lyst Ave­nesh See­taram, and Me­dia Of­fi­cer Jerome Fos­ter com­plete the sup­port group.

The tour will open with the first Test at the Naren­dra Mo­di Sta­di­um in Ahmed­abad from Oc­to­ber 2 to 6, fol­lowed by the sec­ond Test at the Arun Jait­ley Sta­di­um in Del­hi from Oc­to­ber 10 to 14.

This se­ries rep­re­sents a con­tin­u­a­tion of West In­dies’ in­ter­na­tion­al cal­en­dar fol­low­ing home as­sign­ments against Aus­tralia and Pak­istan ear­li­er this year. It al­so of­fers play­ers the chance to push for po­si­tions in the long-term Test set­up while prepar­ing for a de­mand­ing lim­it­ed-overs cam­paign.

With new in­clu­sions and a bal­ance of ex­pe­ri­ence and youth, the squad will aim to de­liv­er com­pet­i­tive per­for­mances in In­dia’s con­di­tions as the new World Test Cham­pi­onship cy­cle gath­ers mo­men­tum.