Becoming a member of the rising tribe of cricketers who keep away from the nation’s central contract, premier white ball gamers Nicholas Pooran, Jason Holder and Kyle Mayers have declined to affix the West Indies roster for the 2023-24 season.
Nevertheless, the trio shall be out there to play T20Is for Windies through the above-mentioned season, introduced the Cricket West Indies (CWI) in a media launch.
The most recent West Indies central contract record contains 14 males and 15 ladies gamers.
“We’re very clear within the path we wish to go. The gamers who’ve been provided contracts are amongst those that we anticipate to function, as we glance to construct in direction of difficult for the highest spot after we host and compete within the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2024 on house soil,” mentioned Desmond Haynes, WI males’s chief selector.
“We even have away Take a look at Collection in Australia and England – these are two main assignments. Within the 50-over format we glance to construct a nucleus of gamers aimed in direction of the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2027,” added Haynes.
Former captain Holder final performed for the West Indies in July – Take a look at and T20I in opposition to India at house and in ODIs in opposition to Scotland through the ICC World Cup qualifiers in Harare.
Pooran, additionally an ex-Windies captain in white ball codecs, final performed a T20I in opposition to India in August whereas his final ODI look was in opposition to Sri Lanka.
Mayers’ final T20I and ODI had been in opposition to India in August whereas his earlier Take a look at look got here in opposition to South Africa at Johannesburg earlier this March.