Dominican, Shane Shillingford, has been named among the 13-man Windies squad to tackle Zimbabwe in the 1st Test match at Kensington Oval in Barbados.
The announcement was made by WICB on Friday.
The match will be played from Tuesday, March 12 to Saturday March 16.
Many were caught by surprise when Shillingford was not featured on the team after he created history at the Windsor Park on Thursday, April 26, 2012 when he became the first West Indies spinner in 46 years to bag ten wickets in a Test match.
The feat was never achieved on home soil before and it occurred during the final Windies Digicel Test against Australia.
The first West Indian spinner to haul ten wickets in a Test match was Lance Gibbs in England back in 1966.
It appears that Shillingford has caught the attention of the Windies selectors during the ongoing Regional Four Day Tournament where he has so far taken 24 wickets.
West Indies and Zimbabwe will also clash at Windsor Park Sports Stadium on March 20th-24th during the second Test.
FULL SQUAD
Darren Sammy (Captain)
Denesh Ramdin (Vice Captain)
Tino Best
Darren Bravo
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Narsingh Deonarine
Shannon Gabriel
Chris Gayle
Veerasammy Permaul
Kieron Powell
Kemar Roach
Marlon Samuels
Shane Shillingford
Shane go there and do your best you can. Good lucl.
Malgraysa is versertile let’s hear professor of everything Malgraysa’s take on Shane’s return.
The forum is Professor Malgraysa’s.
Remember jaime died from a heart attack malgraysa
he injected sprinters did not exercise himself.
Money was what counted not fitness for Jaime right Malgraysa?
im just sooo excited that there is another match in DA last year i had soo much fun and cant wait to go back yaye shane u hv ur supportes
i would never play if i was in his place
Well done Shane..consistency ties up the power at bay
I think that he was picked to boost the home crowd, they will dump him again after this match.
Shane, I wish you good luck. We do know that you will do your best. May you come out a winner, at the top. God bless!
Please, let us keep the conversation sane. Go Shane!
I am very happy that Shane Shillingford has been recalled to the WestIndies team. I hope that he will play in Barbados and perform creditably.I thought he deserved an earlier opportunity against the Ausies but it wasn’t to be.That is life, he just has to make good use of this opportunities. All the best Shane make your country proud.
so i’m seeing a list of 12 and no shillingford..then again i forgot he’s considered little island man..but he continues to perform and embarass the selectors..deonarine shud be out n sarwan in..we need another speed star in the line up instead of gabriel..
How does this brother have to work to be recognized?
who is his brother? I really do not know.
They have to perform excellently and even then they are overlooked. You know, when they’re from a small island, they tend to overlook them and also to discriminate against them. What else is new? We know this is true.
grow up people let the guy enjoy his game,stop being so negative.can you all make the team.
Grell, it is not being negative. Let the truth be told. Are you living in the dark?
Shane you need at least 10 (ten) wickets in the first test match to impress the selectors. When the 1st test is over, you need another 10 (ten)wickets in Dominica, to further impress them.
With that you will go on tour for sure. Nothing more nothing less Shane. Narine had a hell of a bad tour of Bangladesh. He took just 3 (three ) wickets for 300+ runs in just 2 test matches. Test cricket is your strength. You did it against Watson,Warner,Cowan,Clarke,etc.DO IT AGAIN SHANE. They BAS OO DEE NARINE with KOOL PLANCHE in Bangladesh. Don’t let it happen to you,because you know what it will mean for you. SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU STAND BETTER THAN US.
Go For it Shane! I still consider you to be the VERY BEST finger spinner in the Caribbean,no matter what they say.
I thought 11 players take the field, so if the line up is 13 then he is a step-knee and he may not get playing time.
Grow up fellow Dominicans let the man play his game in peace and just support him, good luck Shane and do your best make us proud
I am happy for shane and any player who get selected, on merit, but there seems to be a partern where the selectors including a player to attract big crowd when a match is being played on their home ground cause the second test match will be in Dominica, just look at what happened to Shillingford last year against Australia, he performed very well and was left out of the team, untill now. Am i the only one seeing that game by the selectors? Anyway hope Shillingford makes it difficult for them to drop him in the furture. Shilly go and perform with bat and ball and prove you belong, good luck I will be watching.
This is just the point I was making. Am not sure why it is that because Shane is a Dominican people can’t or should not be objective. The culture you described by the WICB is very obvious. As for the persons talking about stats, if we go that way maybe we should also include Benn, Miller, Bishoo. The fact is Cricket is a business, and Boards are interested in making money end of story!
Zimbabwe is an easy target and gaurantee victory for West Indies. Like it or not Shane’s presence on the team is just that a presence. In the Caribbean it may not matter if he plays or not, but out there Narine is a better sell to the paying public and he will get the nod over Shane, because frankly Shane’s stats are not all that when compared to Narine!
When last you visited the “cricinfo” website? You will swallow your tongue when you go there, leave out ODI and T20 bcuz Shane has never been given the opportunity to play in these versions of the game.
You don’t know what you are talking about. In ODI Narine is the better one. That’s not Shane’s strength. I WON’T ARGUE THAT AT ALL………However Shane is a good enough test bowler and he needs to play more test cricket. He has played 8 tests 29 wickets Average 49.79 Economy rate 2.63…….High average!
Narine 5 tests 15 wickets Average 48.06 Economy rate 3.3 High average!
Both bowlers need to bring down their average.
Narine is younger,and this is significant. However Shane is not at all bad.
@Jagots – What utter rubbish you talking about Shane’s stats not all that when compared to Narine? You should start watching cricket with your eyes open and cease from speaking fables.
Narine in just five test matches has a worst bowling average than Shillingford’s average in 8 test matches.
We are currently unable to compare Shillingford and Narine in ODI or T20 cricket because Shillingford is yet to play ODI or T20 cricket for the Windies whereas Narine has.
Shane, don’t rejoice yet. We are only playing against Zim. You have to perform consistently all the time to guarantee your pick on the team. They will play musical chairs between you, Narine and Permaul. That is how they treat spinner on that team.
because is dominica they playing they add him for a crowd…..i mean they will still get a crowd but soon they live dominica they dont need him again…so they pressing small island people
Pawol Sort is asking you to read carefully before you jump to emotional mode. He was selected for the Barbados game.
so it looks like they fool you too
The WICB does not make money depending on “croud”. Most of their money is made from TV rights. because the stadium was filled in Dca for the WI vs AUS game and empty in ANU for the ZIM vs WI game does not mean that the WICB did not make money. besides, a very large proportion of perons who turn out at these games get complimentary/concessionary tickets anyway. If the WICB was depending on gate fees they would have filed for bancruptsy a long time ago!
I am happy u made this comment. Many pple do not know that. It blows my mind at the level of ignorance. Even radio personalities makes those stupid comments. Just shows that they don’t read of listen to news.
@ Observer “CROWD”
Advertisers/patrons do pay an exorbitant sum of money. This is how they make their money. There is a lot going on behind the scene that we do not know about.
I agree with u, they always pick him for other games just before they play in Dominica.
I must be lind in one eye and deaf in de order one den. I just read on a WI website the 13 named players and Shane wasn’t in it.
Please check ..
http://caribbeancricket.com/
You are indeed blind in one eye and deaf in the other because the list in the link you provided has only 12 players.
Hahahahahahahahaha
But his name is still not there smarty pants.Observer is bias on partisan politics but this time he is correct.
please go to cricinfo and get your facts straight thank you
i understand you BUT there r only 12 on the line up and they said 13
please put on your glasses look on cricinfo.com
@ Observer You are correct. I followed the link.
Go to http://www.windiescricket.com OR cricinfo.com OR wicricnews.com
On political matters we differ at times but this time you are on the ball………