BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies selectors have handed a shock recall to 35-year-old all-rounder Andre Russell in a 15-man squad introduced Saturday for the five-match Twenty20 sequence in opposition to England beginning subsequent week.
Russell, who has continued campaigning on the worldwide franchise circuit however has but to characterize West Indies in two years, joins one other all-rounder, Sherfane Rutherford, who has been recalled 4 years after enjoying his final Twenty20 Worldwide.
Quick bowler Matthew Forde, who made his One-Day Worldwide debut right here Saturday, is the one uncapped participant within the squad.
“This would be the closing dwelling T20I sequence for the West Indies in 2023, as they put together to be one of many two host groups for the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup within the West Indies and USA in June 2024,” stated chief selector, the Most Honourable Desmond Haynes.
“We’ve got chosen a squad that provides us one of the best probability of success in that match. We are going to proceed to evaluate within the lead-up to the competitors.”
Russell is the most important shock within the squad, the Jamaican final that includes for the regional facet of their disastrous marketing campaign within the T20 World Cup two years in the past in United Arab Emirates.
Then, Russell flopped with simply 25 runs from 5 innings and three wickets from 13 overs, as West Indies misplaced 4 of their 5 group matches and missed out on the semi-finals.
Russell has performed 67 T20 Internationals for West Indies however has only one fifty, a mean of 19, and a strike-rate of 156. He has taken 39 wickets with an economic system charge of simply over 9.
Rutherford, in the meantime, performed six T20 Internationals after making his debut in 2018 however then fell off the radar.
He returned to worldwide cricket final week when he made his ODI debut in Antigua within the ongoing three-match sequence in opposition to England.
The 21-year-old Forde grabbed selectors’ consideration with 11 wickets for St Lucia Kings in final September’s Caribbean Premier League and shone within the International T20 Canada with 15 wickets for Surrey Jaguars final August.
ODI captain Shai Hope has been put in as vice-captain to Rovman Powell within the squad, which sees the return of all-rounder Jason Holder and left-hander Nicholas Poora, who each missed the ODI sequence.
West Indies face England within the opening T20 Worldwide on Tuesday at Kensington Oval earlier than enjoying two matches in Grenada and one other two on the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago.
SQUAD – Rovman Powell (captain), Shai Hope (vice-captain), Roston Chase, Matthew Forde, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Brandon King, Kyle Mayers, Gudakesh Motie, Nicholas Pooran, Andre Russell, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd
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