ST JOHN’S, An­tigua - Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) on Tues­day un­veiled the squad se­lect­ed for the West In­dies Acad­e­my tour of Ire­land, slat­ed from June 8 - 29.

This tour will com­prise five match­es, en­com­pass­ing three 50-over match­es and two four-day match­es against Ire­land’s Emerg­ing Men’s Team. It sig­ni­fies a rec­i­p­ro­cal tour fol­low­ing Ire­land's vis­it to the West In­dies in No­vem­ber 2023.

"We con­tin­ue to be me­thod­i­cal in our ap­proach by ex­pos­ing our acad­e­my play­ers to var­i­ous op­po­si­tion and con­di­tions across dif­fer­ent for­mats. This is key to their de­vel­op­ment and fos­ters re­silience and adapt­abil­i­ty," said Miles Bas­combe, CWI Di­rec­tor of Crick­et.

Ny­eem Young will con­tin­ue as cap­tain, with Ted­dy Bish­op as vice cap­tain for both for­mats.

"Ny­eem’s lead­er­ship qual­i­ties have been ev­i­dent through­out his tenure, no­tably steer­ing the Acad­e­my team dur­ing the Su­per50 and West In­dies Cham­pi­onship cam­paigns. His con­tin­ued cap­tain­cy is a tes­ta­ment to his ex­cep­tion­al lead­er­ship skills and con­tri­bu­tion to the team,” not­ed Graeme West, CWI’s High Per­for­mance Man­ag­er in ref­er­ence to Young.

Re­gard­ing Bish­op's se­lec­tion as vice cap­tain, West high­lights, "Ted­dy Bish­op's el­e­va­tion to Vice Cap­tain­cy un­der­scores his grow­ing stature with­in the team. His adept han­dling of lead­er­ship re­spon­si­bil­i­ties dur­ing Young's ab­sence and his in­valu­able ex­pe­ri­ence with the West In­dies A Team and Se­nior Teams make him an ide­al choice for the role."

Matthew Forde is the on­ly con­tract­ed acad­e­my play­er not se­lect­ed. Forde is vy­ing to be se­lect­ed for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

FULL SQUAD:

Ny­eem Young (cap­tain), Ted­dy Bish­op (vice cap­tain), Kadeem Al­leyne, Jew­el An­drew, Ac­k­eem Au­guste, Joshua Bish­op, McKen­ny Clarke, Joshua James, Jor­dan John­son, Leonar­do Ju­lian, Jo­hann Layne, Ash­mead Nedd, Kelvin Pit­man, Ra­mon Sim­monds, Car­lon Tuck­ett

The coach­ing and sup­port staff ac­com­pa­ny­ing the squad are as fol­lows:

Head Coach: Ramesh Sub­as­inghe

As­sis­tant Coach: Ro­han Nurse

Phys­io­ther­a­pist: Neil Bar­ry

Strength & Con­di­tion­ing Coach: Shayne Coop­er

Man­ag­er & Team An­a­lyst: Kesh Ram­phal

(Cour­tesy CWI Me­dia)