West Indies have recalled Evin Lewis to their squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia. Lewis last played international cricket at last year’s T20 World Cup in the UAE, and had since missed out on West Indies’ squads for fitness reasons.
There is no room in the squad for the allrounder Andre Russell, who, like Lewis, last featured for West Indies during last year’s T20 World Cup. Fabian Allen, who recently announced his availability for selection after taking a break for family reasons, is also absent.
A surprise inclusion in the squad is the legspin-bowling allrounder Yannic Cariah, who made his West Indies debut during last month’s ODI series against New Zealand, but is uncapped in T20Is, and his experience in the T20 format is limited to four games, the last of which came during the 2016 Caribbean Premier League.
The selectors have picked Cariah ahead of Hayden Walsh, who had been the preferred wristspin option over recent months.
Apart from Cariah, the squad includes one other uncapped T20I player in Raymon Reifer, the left-arm seam-bowling allrounder who has played three Tests and five ODIs. Reifer has been in excellent form for the Jamaica Tallawahs in the ongoing CPL, scoring 171 runs in four innings at an average of 57.00 and a strike rate of 143.69.
CPL form has also led to a recall for top-order batter Johnson Charles, who last played a T20I in December 2016. Charles is presently the second-highest run-getter in CPL 2022, with 227 runs in six innings at an average of 45.40 and a strike rate of 136.74.
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Source: ESPN Crickinfo