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Three Bs back from injury in West Indies squad for T20 against Zimbabwe
Bridgetown, Barbados, February 23 (www.bcacricket.org) - Three ‘Bs’ who were injured – left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn and batsmen Adrian Barath and Darren Bravo – are back in the West Indies 13-man squad for the one-off Twenty20 International against Zimbabawe in Trinidad on Sunday, February 28.
Barbadian Benn returns following “remedial and rehabilitative therapy” on his right knee, having played in his island’s last two matches against Guyana and Jamaica in the 2010 regional first-class championship.
Benn last represented West Indies in the away three-Test series against Australia late last year.
The Trinidadian pair of opener Barath, 19, and 21-year-old left-hander Bravo, who bats in the middle, both played in a solitary WICB first-class game against Windward Islands last weekend.
Barath, who made his Test debut on the recent tour to Australia, had been sidelined with a hamstring injury while Bravo suffered a shoulder injury while representing Trinidad & Tobago in the Champions League Twenty20 in India last November.
Also back after recovering from an ailment and having to miss the just concluded limited overs series in Australia is veteran batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul, whose thumb was injured during the Test series ‘Down Under’. The Guyanese played in his country’s last two regional matches against Barbados and Leeward Islands.
In a media release, the WICB named wicket-keeper/batsman Denesh Ramdin as captain for the match at Queen’s Park Oval and said regular skipper Chris Gayle was being rested.
“He (Gayle) is expected to be available for the five-match One-Day International series,” against Zimbabwe, the release said.
There are recalls for Gayle’s fellow Jamaican, all-rounder David Bernard and Windward Islands batsman, Grenadian Andre Fletcher who were both in the West Indies squad for the Champions Trophy in England last September.
Squad: Denesh Ramdin (captain), Adrian Barath, Darren Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Ravi Rampaul (Trinidad & Tobago), Sulieman Benn, Kemar Roach, Dwayne Smith (Barbados), David Bernard, Nikita Miller (Jamaica), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (Guyana), Andre Fletcher, Darren Sammy (Windward Islands).