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Friday, July 18, 2025

Jangoo earns maiden Test call for West Indies tour of Pakistan

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Amir Jangoo of West Indies celebrates his unbeaten century (104) during the third and final ODI against Bangladesh at Warner Park, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis December 18, 2024.

Amir Jangoo of West Indies celebrates his unbeaten century (104) during the third and final ODI against Bangladesh at Warner Park, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis December 18, 2024.

Randy Brooks

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua—Trinidad and To­ba­go left-hand­ed bat­ter Amir Jan­goo has earned his maid­en Test call-up as Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) on Mon­day un­veiled the squad set to tour Pak­istan for a two-match Test se­ries, sched­uled from Jan­u­ary 17–29, 2025, at the Mul­tan Crick­et Sta­di­um.

Jan­goo, who scored a sen­sa­tion­al ODI de­but cen­tu­ry against Bangladesh re­cent­ly, joins the team which al­so sees a re­turn of Guyanese left-arm spin­ner Gu­dakesh Motie, who was ab­sent dur­ing the re­cent drawn se­ries against Bangladesh.

West In­dies head coach An­dre Co­ley spoke on the in­clu­sion of Jan­goo and the re­turn of Motie. “Motie’s re­turn strength­ens our spin op­tions, while Jan­goo’s se­lec­tion is a tes­ta­ment to his con­sis­ten­cy across for­mats and his pro­fi­cien­cy against spin.”

Mean­while, Guyanese fast bowler Shamar Joseph re­mains side­lined due to in­jury re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion, while An­tiguan pac­er Alzarri Joseph will be un­avail­able due to oth­er com­mit­ments.

This se­ries holds spe­cial sig­nif­i­cance as it not on­ly con­cludes the cur­rent two-year ICC World Test Cham­pi­onship cy­cle but al­so marks the West In­dies’ first Test se­ries on Pak­istani soil in 18 years.

Co­ley em­pha­sized the im­por­tance of con­tin­ued growth in the re­gion­al team.“For the Test se­ries against Pak­istan in Jan­u­ary 2025, the fo­cus is on build­ing on what we have done well and trans­form­ing the learn­ings from 2024 in­to tan­gi­ble re­sults.”

The squad is set to leave the Caribbean on Jan­u­ary 2 and ar­rive in Is­lam­abad on Jan­u­ary 6, to pre­pare for a two-day warm-up match in Rawalpin­di start­ing Jan­u­ary 10.

West In­dies Test Squad for Pak­istan

Kraigg Brath­waite (Cap­tain), Joshua Da Sil­va (Vice-Cap­tain), Al­ick Athanaze, Kea­cy Car­ty, Justin Greaves, Kavem Hodge, Tevin Im­lach, Amir Jan­goo, Mikyle Louis, Gu­dakesh Motie, An­der­son Phillip, Ke­mar Roach, Kevin Sin­clair, Jay­den Seales, Jomel War­ri­can

(CMC)


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