ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Left-handed stroke-maker Jonathan Carter is among four players called up for the West Indies A team’s three-match one-day tour of Sri Lanka starting next month.
West Indies selectors yesterday named Carter, along with right-hander Nkrumah Bonner, off-spinner Ashley Nurse and fast bowler Ronsford Beaton, to join the bulk of the squad already in Sri Lanka for the ongoing unofficial “Test” series.
The four new players will replace leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo, off-spinner Shane Shillingford, left-arm seamer Sheldon Cottrell and batsman Kirk Edwards who head home when the “Test” series concludes.
Carter is free-scoring batsman who has represented West Indies A in recent times but who was surprisingly overlooked for the ongoing “Test” series.
The 26-year-old was one of the standout players at the recent Champions League Twenty20 in India where he smashed an unbeaten 111 in his first innings of the series, playing for Barbados Tridents.
Current captain Carlos Brathwaite will continue to lead the side.
West Indies A bowl off the one-day tour on November 1st in Dambulla before playing matches in Kurunegala on November 3rd and Colombo two days later.
They currently trail the three-match “Test” series 1-0, after losing the first game in Hambantota by ten wickets and drawing the second in Matara.
The third four-day “Test” off Saturday in Moratuwa.
SQUAD: Carlos Brathwaite (captain), Sunil Ambris, Ronsford Beaton, Jermaine Blackwood, Nkrumah Bonner, Kraigg Brathwaite, Jonathan Carter, Miguel Cummins, Andre Fletcher, Assad Fudadin, Shannon Gabriel, Nikita Miller, Ashley Nurse, Chadwick Walton.
