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Fudadin selected for England tour, Bishoo axed
Chanderpaul, Deonarine also included
The Clyde Butts led West Indies selection panel yesterday named a 15-man squad for the tour of England with 26-year-old Guyanese left-hander Assad Fudadin set to make his first senior International tour along with 23-year-old Trinidad and Tobago fast bowler Shannon Gabriel.
Dominican off-spinner Shane Shillingford who grabbed 10 wickets and scored an unbeaten 36 in a losing cause in the final Test which ended yesterday, is the lone specialist spinner selected with Guyanese Devendra Bishoo losing his place in the squad after bursting onto the International scene last year with a string of impressive performances before losing form and confidence this year.
Assad Fudadin
Butts, a former Guyana and West Indies off-spinner said the panel expected pace to be West Indies’ primary weapon on early season English pitches. Denesh Ramdin and Marlon Samuels have been recalled while Kraigg Brathwaite and Carlton Baugh have lost their places for the tour which begins next month.
Thirty-seven year-old Veteran Shiv Chanderpaul who passed 10,000 Test runs with two fifties in the last Test against Australia and fellow left-hander Narsingh Deonarine are the other Guyanese in the squad.
Bishoo and Brathwaite, who made three ducks and 11 in his final four innings of the Australia series will play for West Indies A against India ‘A’ while Adrian Barath and Kieran Powell were both included for England despite not passing 50 in the Australia series.
“We are going to England early in the season, where the conditions tend to favour the quick bowlers more than the spinners,” Butts said. “Young Gabriel continues to impress the selectors in both Regional and A-team cricket, and we feel it is a good time to introduce him to the team. We feel he will be an asset to the team in England and has a bright future in West Indies cricket.
“Shillingford has bowled very well against the Australians and we expect a lot from him in England. Bishoo has done well for West Indies in the last year or so, but he has lost some of his confidence and the selectors feel playing him in the A team against India A will give him the chance to regain that confidence.
“We have got to continue to build for the future and we believe that Barath and Powell have bright futures in the game. We also feel this way about Kraigg Brathwaite, but he too, has lost some of his conviction and the selectors also feel playing him in the A team against India A will give him the chance to regain that confidence. None of the other openers in the region have stood out and we are hoping to strengthen this part of our cricket in future Regional tournaments and the A-team tours.”
“Baugh has been good behind the stumps, but his batting has not quite lived up to expectations, hence the selection of Ramdin,” Butts said. “Before he got injured in the camp prior to the series against Australia, Denesh was showing good form both behind the stumps and with the bat.”
Samuels has returned after asking to be exempt from selection for the Australia series to play in the IPL. “Marlon since his return to the team has not done badly for us and the selectors feel that he is an asset to the team,” Butts said.
Chris Gayle was not selected since the series clashes with the latter part of the Indian Twenty20 tournament, although he could be picked for the limited-overs portion of the tour having reached an agreement with the WICB. West Indies’ first tour match is against Sussex at Hove from May 5. The first Test begins at Lord’s on May 17.
West Indies Test squad to tour England: Darren Sammy (Capt.); Kirk Edwards (Vice-Capt.), Adrian Barath, Darren Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Narsingh Deonarine, Fidel Edwards, Assad Fudadin, Shannon Gabriel, Kieran Powell, Kemar Roach, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Marlon Samuels and Shane Shillingford.
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