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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Illness forces change to Windies' ODI squad

An seizure to rookie wicketkeeper/batsman Devon Thomas, graphic in Mar 2011, has stirred West Indies to have a shift to their patrol for a initial dual One-day Internationals opposite Pakistan.
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ST. JOHNS (AFP) – An seizure to rookie wicketkeeper/batsman Devon Thomas has stirred West Indies to have a shift to their patrol for a initial dual One-day Internationals opposite Pakistan.

The West Indies Cricket Board voiced upon Saturday which a 21-year-old Thomas, who has played 9 ODIs for a Caribbean side, has been diagnosed with chickenpox as well as has returned to his homeland of Antigua.

Carlton Baugh Jr, a 28-year-old wicketkeeper/batsman from Jamaica, will reinstate Thomas in a 13-member squad.

Baugh done a lapse to a side for a Test debate of Sri Lanka final November, as well as kept his place in a side until he was sidelined by a injure leg tendon damage only forward of a World Cup, which was not long ago staged in India, Sri Lanka, as well as Bangladesh.

He has however, recovered from a setback, as well as was partial of a home team’s precision stay during a West Indies High Performance Centre for a final dual weeks in Barbados.

Baugh has played 33 ODIs for a Caribbean side in a checkered general career, following his entrance 8 years ago.

He is simply a single of a many inclusive wicketkeeper/batsmen in West Indies made during home competitions, though he has unsuccessful to renovate which category in to a general arena.

The initial ODIs in between West Indies as well as Pakistan take place upon Saturday, Apr twenty-three as well as Monday, Apr twenty-five during a Beausejour Cricket Ground in a island of St. Lucia.

Revised West Indies squad:

Darren Sammy (Captain), Dwayne Bravo (Vice Captain), Carlton Baugh, Devendra Bishoo, Darren Bravo, Kirk Edwards, Anthony Martin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons, Devon Smith

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