Two Guyanese in West Indies ODI team for Australia

Jan 19, 2010 Sports

Sarwan, Chanderpaul among 7 unavailable due to injury

By Sean Devers in Antigua

Narsingh Deonarine and Travis Dowlin have been predictably selected on the West Indies 15-man ODI squad for their tour of Australia, but senior players Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan are among 7 not considered due to injury.
The touring party, to be captained by Chris Gayle, was announced here in Antigua yesterday and Daren Bravo, Adrian Barath, Sulieman Benn, Shiv Chanderpaul, Fidel Edwards, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Jerome Taylor have all not been considered for selection due to injury.
Chanderpaul (finger) and Sarwan (back) both pulled out of the Guyana team for the historic Day/Night match here in Antigua.
Runako Morton celebrated his West Indies re-call with a century against Jamaica yesterday while Lendl Simmons, who along with Denesh Ramdin scored centuries against Guyana for T&T in the Day/Night encounter, also gets a re-call.
Chairman of selectors and former Guyana and West Indies off-spinner Clyde Butts feels that despite the absence of several key players, the team will do well down under.
“We believe the team will do very well in Australia in the 50-over format as well as the T20 Internationals. We have faith in the players and we believe the team can win. Before we went to Australia for the Test matches, the team was not given a chance by many people, but we saw how well they bounced backed after the first Test and challenged the Aussies in Adelaide and Perth,” Butts said.
“We are missing some key players due to injuries, but this is an opportunity for other players to re-establish themselves. We have selected some allrounders who we believe have the ability to be match-winners at the international level. Dwayne Smith and Kieron Pollard have been a bit disappointing in the past, but they have displayed the ability to perform on the Twenty/20 stage, and we think they will be major assets in the squad, Butts added.
The 52-year-old Butts, who played 7 Tests, said that there was a lot of cricket to be played in the next five months and that the players have to be prepared.
“The players have been working hard and we are looking to do well in Australia and also to continue that work when we return home for the series against Zimbabwe in late February and March. After that we have the much-anticipated ICC T20 World Cup and at home and we want to be fully prepared for that. Following that tournament we face South Africa at home at that will be another major battle. Overall, we want to see the players make progress as individuals, see the team make strides as a unit and get West Indies cricket back up the ladder,” Butts said
The West Indies squad read:- Chris Gayle (Captain), Dwayne Bravo (Vice Captain), Narsingh Deonarine, Travis Dowlin, Runako Morton, Nikita Miller, Brendan Nash, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Darren Sammy, Lendl Simmons, Dwayne Smith, Gavin Tonge.

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