The West Indies confirmed their 15-man squad for the current ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. This tournament will be co-hosted by the Caribbean nations and the USA. For good cause, Rovman Powell is likely to captain the West Indies in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024.
Shamar Joseph did his best in his Test debut series against Australia earlier this year. And is now poised to mark his T20I debut. After being picked in the West Indies T20 WC squad.
Meanwhile, Shimron Hetmyer made a comeback after missing the T20I series against Australia. Well, he has been in good nick in the ongoing IPL with the Rajasthan Royal. Because he scored 83 runs in four innings. With a strike rate of 184.44 while playing the finisher’s role.
Kyle Mayers was also part of the squad during the Australia series. Since he was omitted the Windies opted for a lower-order batter over an opener. Additionally, pacer Oshane Thomas has been left out of the squad.
Picture Behind West Indies Squad Selection
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Director of West Indies Cricket Desmond Haynes spoke about the big selection calls.
“We had a very long discussion with the situation of the batting line-up,” he said. “I want to state very clearly that our focus has always been (on) roles – roles that we want people to play. The situation of someone like Shamar Joseph, you really can’t question someone like him, we saw him in Australia. He ticked the boxes for us.
“It was some very close decisions, regarding the selection of Kyle Mayers and Shimron Hetmyer – but we looked at who we wanted the extra batter batting down the order.”
Part of Group C alongside Afghanistan, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Uganda, the two-time Champions will kick off their campaign on 2 June against PNG in Guyana.
All teams are allowed to make changes to their squad until 25 May, after which any alteration will require approval from ICC’s Event Technical Committee.
West Indies T20 WC Squad
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Rovman Powell (c), Alzarri Joseph, Johnson Charles, Roston Chase, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Shai Hope, Akeal Hosein, Shamar Joseph, Brandon King, Gudakesh Motie, Nicholas Pooran, Andre Russell, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd.
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