Recent standout batter Amir Jangoo has won a West Indies Test selection for the team’s two-Test tour of Pakistan in January.
After impressing with a score 104 not out from just 83 balls against Bangladesh on ODI debut in St Kitts and as a regular performing in regional cricket, the 27-year-old earned a spot of the 15-player group on the first Test tour of Pakistan for the team in 18 years.
former West Indies hard hitting opening batsman Chris Gayle says young players have to be prepared to learn quickly when they enter the international stage.
The Kraigg Brathwaite led 15-man Windies squad will face Pakistan in a two test series starting on January 17.
The series is final action for both sides in the World Test Championship cycle, with both sides currently sat in the bottom half of the table and eager to finish unsuccessful campaigns on a high.
Andre Coley will oversee the team as coach, with Daren Sammy set to take the red-ball portfolio from June.
Noting he endured a torrid tour of Sri Lanka in only his second test series in 2001, Gayle says the young players will have to be mentally strong in what is expected to be a tough series against the Aussies.
“First time in Sri Lanka as well I was dismissed like five times against Chaminda Vass in a test series. Highest score was probably 40 something runs and I finished maybe leave it probably fifty runs in in the entire three match series, you know? But in one day, you know I went down to school You know a lot of runs, but you know words are hard drives from me with Brain Lara, participate a lot of big players condition and you know they didn’t score in it runs as well. So just it was a learning curve. It’s all quickly learned just let faster ball do the same thing as well. So you know it’s all about the batter the skills you develop you know facing a particular goal with so many skills as well sort of the the machine is very good, you know before coming up against.
About that good baller coming up against a good batter. Both are very skillful, both are very skillful, so that made the game a bit more interested as well, very more, you know. Challenging from our from our viewers point of view as well.”
However, Gayle who scored 10,480 runs for the Windies with a highest score of 215 in the format says, those totals will soon be eclipsed.
The first Test in Pakistan begins on January 17.
West Indies Test Squad to Pakistan: Kraigg Brathwaite (Captain), Joshua Da Silva, Alick Athanaze, Keacy Carty, Justin Greaves, Kavem Hodge, Tevin Imlach, Amir Jangoo, Mikyle Louis, Gudakesh Motie, Anderson Phillip, Kemar Roach, Kevin Sinclair, Jayden Seales, Jomel Warrican