KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC — Jamaica Scorpions have rung the changes for their eighth round game in the Regional four-day championship against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force starting tomorrow in Port-of-Spain.
Missing will be the trio of fast bowler Jerome Taylor, wicketkeeper Chadwick Walton and all-rounder Rovman Powell who were to link up with the West Indies squad in Barbados yesterday to prepare for the upcoming Twenty20 series against Pakistan.
Batsman Shacaya Thomas has also been omitted reportedly with passport problems.
As replacements, selectors have called up the quartet of John Campbell, Trevon Griffith and Oraine Williams and fast bowling all-rounder Derval Green.
Batsman Williams is the only one of the four without national senior team experience.
“Three of the players have already represented us, so I am looking forward to them making a return and make a contribution,” captain Nikita Miller told the Gleaner newspaper prior to the side’s departure.
“As for Oraine, this is his first senior call-up, so if he gets an opportunity one would hope he grabs it with both hands.”
Leaders at the mid-season break for the Regional Super50, Scorpions have found themselves in a slump, losing their last two games since the restart of the competition.
They went down by seven wickets to leaders Guyana Jaguars in the sixth round and by 34 runs to Leeward Islands Hurricanes also at Sabina Park last weekend, and now lie third on 78.6 points.
Their last three games of the season will be away fixtures.
SQUAD — Nikita Miller (captain), Jermaine Blackwood, Damion Jacobs, Brandon King, Andre McCarthy, Marquino Mindley, Paul Palmer Jr, Rovman Powell, Devon Thomas, Oraine Williams, John Campbell, Fabian Allen, Derval Green.
