Darren Sammy has so far led West Indies in 27 Tests, of which they have won eight and lost ten. © BCCI
Interestingly, despite West Indies slipping to defeats within three days in both the Tests against India, no changes were made to the squad. That also meant Shane Shillingford and Marlon Samuels, who were reported for suspect bowling actions during the Mumbai Test, would be a part of the bowling attack.
Left out once again was Sunil Narine, who has so far featured in five Tests. Narine’s return of 12 wickets in two Tests during the New Zealand tour of West Indies in 2012 was instrumental in his side winning the series and registering back-to-back Test wins for the first time since Bangladesh in 2002.
West Indies would also be without Kemar Roach, who returned home from India because of a shoulder injury.
Nine of the 15 members of the squad are currently in India for the three-match One-Day International series, which gets over on November 27, the day West Indies’ tour game against New Zealand XI is scheduled to start in Lincoln. Seeing that only Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Kirk Edwards, Shannon Gabriel, Shillingford, Sheldon Cottrell and Chadwick Walton would be available for that game, a relook at the itinerary might not be out of the question.
West Indies are currently No. 6 in the ICC Test rankings and New Zealand are at No. 8.
The second and third Tests will be played in Wellington and Hamilton respectively followed by five ODIs and two Twenty20 Internationals.
West Indies Test squad: Darren Sammy (capt), Chris Gayle, Darren Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Kirk Edwards, Kieron Powell, Marlon Samuels, Narsingh Deonarine, Shane Shillingford, Veerasammy Permaul, Tino Best, Sheldon Cottrell, Shannon Gabriel, Chadwick Walton.
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