West Indies will essentially field three teams on their upcoming tour to New Zealand where two four-day matches have been scheduled.
This is according to Chief Executive Officer of Cricket West Indies, Johnny Grave who told Stabroek Sport, “There are two A team matches scheduled at the same time as the Test matches.”
He confirmed that the current plans are to have “a usual Test squad of 15 and a T20 squad of 14.”
“We will probably travel with five or six additional reserve players too,” he declared.
“A team squads are usually 13 [and] is likely to be made up from five or six reserves plus say two from the Test squad and five or six from the T20I squad,” he explained.
Grave also indicated that at the moment there is no change in the management of the West Indies senior men’s side.
Chief Selector, Roger Harper has already confirmed Jason Holder as Test captain while Kieron Pollard is unlikely to be demoted as skipper of the One-Day and T20 teams following his leadership of Trinbago Knight Riders in the Caribbean Premier League title’s undefeated run to the title.
West Indies are expected to converge in Barbados on October 27 where they will head to London before making their way to the United Arab Emirates to pick up players from the Indian Premier League whose franchises would have been eliminated. They will then head to New Zealand where they will be in a 14-day quarantine.
Three T20Is are scheduled for November 27, 29 and 30 while the two Tests are booked for December 3-7 and 11-15. This is expected to be the first series since the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic to be played in front of an in-house audience.
