The West Indies Cricket Board announced today a 12-member West Indies squad for a training camp in Barbados ahead of the International Home Test Series against Australia.
The training camp takes place from May 25 to 29 with sessions being staged at the Franklyn Stephenson Academy in the community of Bennetts in the central Barbados parish of St. Thomas.
TRAINING SQUAD
Devendra Bishoo
Jermaine Blackwood
Kraigg Brathwaite
Darren Bravo
Shannon Gabriel
Jason Holder
Shai Hope
Veerasammy Permaul
Denesh Ramdin
Kemar Roach
Marlon Samuels
Jerome Taylor
Team Management Unit
Phil Simmons (Head Coach)
Sir Richie Richardson (Manager)
Stuart Williams (Assistant Coach)
Sir Curtly Ambrose (Bowling Consultant)
Andre Coley (Assistant Coach)
C.J. Clark (Physiotherapist)
Hector Martinez Charles (Fitness Coordinator)
Richard Berridge (Video Analyst)
Virgil Browne (Massage Therapist)
Philip Spooner (Media Relations Manager)
NOTES
The players that will not be involved in the training camp have been officially notified. This includes veteran left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
Convenor of Selectors Clive Lloyd has communicated this to Chanderpaul both verbally and in writing, explaining the Selection Panel’s omission.
“This was a tough decision for the Selection Panel to make,” said Lloyd. “We recognise the significant contribution Chanderpaul has made to the West Indies teams over the last two decades, but we want to take this opportunity to introduce a number of young, promising players into the squad.”
The squad for the first Test against the Australians will be finalised next Friday. It coincides with the final day of the tour match between the WICB President’s XI, a composite side of Test hopefuls, and the Aussies, starting next Wednesday at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua.
Sir Clive Lloyd seems to be turning Bajan. I don”t get it. Problem with Chriv, Deonarine, Leon Johnson…hmm.
You are correct here and CLive Lloyd has always stated his love for Barbados since his mother is a Bajan. If Lloyd has his way the entire WI team will be all bajans…He is trying to fit Hope a square peg into a round hole as opener- not ready yet. Shiv deserves a proper farewell test here in Dominica and a chance to finish his glorious career on a high….
Llyod remember new brooms sweep clean but the old ones news the corners. Your selection by dropping Chanderpaul might hurt W.I
Promising young players my foot. How on God’s earth could you Clive Lloyd omit Chanderpaul
from the squad? Are you out of your shallow mind? I’m just asking questions
crowd attendance should be the objective of the game of cricket
Why do we allow has been cricketers like LLOYD interfere with the JOY of cricket lovers of the caribbean /
These back of the scene INVISIBLE bosses with ZERO contribution to our cricket today and who travel !ST class and 5 star hotels at the cricket expertise expense of our cricket heros have no place to affect our joy of seeing our cricket heros !!!
LLoyd should be fired !
he is myopic and very anti the CARIBBEAN CRICKET PUBLIC
His ridculous selection of a cricket captain of such inexperience in a world cup as well as his vendetta against the best we have in 20 overs cricket –POLLARD and Dwayne Bravo made us the laughing stock of the world,s last world cup.nderpaul
Chaanderpaul is DOMINICANS cricket hero and crowd attendance should be the objective of
Two average leg spinners on a team to face australia makes no sense.trying to turn hope into a test opener will ruin the young man cricket carrier.
Their 12 member team does not make sense. How do you drop Chanderpaul for a Dominica test, where he averages 96.0 in his three matches, which includes two centuries? Another thing is, since they only selected 12 men which includes 4 seamers, 2 spinners, and six batters and the pres X1 team which includes local opener TT, will play a three day march come May 27-29, I suspect Theophile will be added to the squad to open with Brathwaite and the Shai Hope will replace Chanderpaul at # 5. They know very well that dropping our local Chanderpaul for a Dominica test would live many of us angry and therefore bringing in TT to play his first test here would cause us to forget Chanderpaul and root for our real local batsman.
Chanderpaul should have bowed down out off test matches before the match bowed down off him. He has not been performing too well as one would expect. he can still continue to represent Guyana
Mr Lloyed i understand you want to bring in young players but its important to blend experience with youth, you dropped him because he failed against England, I’m sure if he had score a hundred in each of the last three test matches he would be playing against Australia, if that’s the case then why Darren Bravo is playing because he has failed more than having success!! I honestly think Chanderpaul should be included especially in Dominica where he have played so well. there is a huge hole in the batting line up, Australia must be laughing!!!!!!
And an out of form Chanderpaul will fill that hole?
Players have to be selected on their merit and right now Chanderpaul does not merit selection.
Thank God I am not going to see the match. The match will just end earlier.
@ country woman, lets keep our breath because Thyrone Theophille might get his opportunity to play the first test.
DNO that was as of Saturday May 23. However, later that day that decision was overturned by the directors and management of WICB who reinstated Tiger. As a matter of fact, by 6 am Sunday morning, the override was posted here: http://www.caribbeancricket.com/
I read your link.
Quite frankly, I think that as a matter of common procedure and in proper circumstances in sport the Board and in this case the WI cricket Board, ought not to meddle in selection matters.
However, this time I fully agree with the Board. Clive Llyod’s and the selection panel was to me a travesty and injustice. I could understand they asking ChanderPaul to consider retirement but to throw him off the train without a proper send-off is injustice. This is what has happened to all West Indies Greats and is endemic in our society, not just in cricket but in all areas. WE AS WEST INDIANS MUST BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF OUR MINDS if we want to move forward. ChanderPaul should not be allowed to play forever but at least give him a good sendoff after the Australia Series. WI Board – take a leaf from the Indians, Australians etc
See my article: https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/commentary-a-case-for-shivnarine-chanderpaul-in-his-own-figures/
I meant to say “Clive Llyod’s and the selection panel’s decision…”
The interference of the board shows that it is not interested in the development of WI cricket.The board has overturned a decision based on sentimental reasons only, not to field the best. It is sad that WI cricket has sunk so low. Chanderpaul is included so that he can most likely be the WI cricketer with the most test runs. What’s the significance when it is not an international acheivement, Tandulkar and the others are way ahead.
Hold your horses, DNO, Camaron and Nanton have override Lloyd and his selector’s decision to drop Chanderpaul. . Remember, the golden colored bottle of champagne which is alleged to have cost $500 US a bottle seen on a table during Skeritt and Nantan’s visit to Malaysia, I understood, many of those bottles of champagne will be used as a send off for Chanderpaul, the naturalized Dominican, when the West Indies team comes to Dominica. Therefore, dropping Chandi from the team would have caused an embarrassment to Nantan, who is Dominican and vice President of WIBC. It will be interesting to see whether Lloyd will resign.
For the record, Chanderpaul received a Honorary Citizenship by the Skeritt Administration in 2011.
@Doc. Love DNO is right. I also made this observation yesterday and posted the article of http://caribbeancricket.com/topic/1106276, where it was posted, but when I got up Monday Morning Lloyd’s decision was accepted.
Why should Lloyd resign? Clive Lloyd gave his life to West Indies Cricket. He is the ONLY Captain to win the World Cup twice. West Indies has not won the World Cup since. Chanderpaul’s stats does not look good. He needs to take a rest. What’s all this about an honorary Dominican? Number one he’s NOT Dominican. Shillingford is! I didn’t hear you all raving about Shillingford. You all have very short memories. You’re all blaming Clive Lloyd but the decision is NOT his alone. He is Chairman of Selectors and has to deliver the message. Don’t shoot the messenger! Also remember that Simmonds who is the new Head Coach did not want Shiv in the squad! Why is everyone blaming Lloyd? Chanderpaul should thank the Board for the opportunities that he’s had and use his expertise, knowledge & skills elsewhere starting with Guyana! He’s NOT THE BE ALL AND END ALL Of West Indies Cricket. We’ve moved on. Also the President should have NEVER interfered behaving like a Junta!!! Mind you he had…