Gayle returns for West Indies against England
Captain Chris Gayle has returned to the West Indies squad for the
first two one-day games of a five-match series against England in Guyana
on Friday and Sunday.
The hard-hitting left-hander strained his right hamstring during the
drawn fifth and final test at the Queen's Park Oval last week, and
missed the one-off Twenty20 victory at the same venue on Sunday.
The 29-year-old comes back at the expense of Andre Fletcher, who only
made six in Sunday's contest that the West Indies won by six wickets.
Denesh Ramdin, who stood in as captain for the Twenty20 match, is
retained as vice-captain.
There are two other changes from the initial Twenty20 squad, with
Jerome Taylor omitted because of a left calf strain that has already
forced him to miss the fifth test and the Twenty20 game itself. Fellow
Jamaican pacer Daren Powell, who played all five tests in the
just-concluded series, takes Taylor's place in the side.
PORT-OF-SPAIN,AP |