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Ricardo Powell and Darrel Brown called up to join West Indies
Off-spinner Ricardo Powell and medium-pacer Darrel Brown were called up to join the West Indies team in Sri Lanka for the triangular one-day series, the cricket board said.
Off-spinner Ricardo Powell and medium-pacer Darrel Brown were called up to join the West Indies team in Sri Lanka for the triangular one-day series, the cricket board said.
Both Powell and Brown are scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on Monday, the West Indies cricket board said on Saturday. The West Indies on Sunday began a one-day international series that also includes Zimbabwe. Yesterday, Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe in what was the lowest scoring one-day international in history.
Powell and Brown will reinforce a West Indies team that lost two players to injury or ailments this week. Opener Leon Garrick was sent home with a possible heart ailment. Spinner Dinanath Ramnaraine suffer a partial muscle tear on his left side.
A third player, fastbowler Mervyn Dillon, was sent home for disciplinary reasons. Late last month, the West Indies dropped a Test series to Sri Lanka 3-0.
Brown, 27, is receiving his first call-up to the senior team. He is a right arm medium-pacer and also a useful left-handed batsman. He made his first class debut in 1999 against India A and his regional one-day debut versus Barbados last year.
Powell, 23, a Jamaican right-handed batsman and right-arm off-spinner, has 48 one-day internationals since making his debut at the 1999 world cup. He has scored 997 runs in one-day internationals at an average of 23.73, with 104 fifties. He has also taken four wickets at an average of 49.50. Bureau Report
Both Powell and Brown are scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on Monday, the West Indies cricket board said on Saturday. The West Indies on Sunday began a one-day international series that also includes Zimbabwe. Yesterday, Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe in what was the lowest scoring one-day international in history.
Powell and Brown will reinforce a West Indies team that lost two players to injury or ailments this week. Opener Leon Garrick was sent home with a possible heart ailment. Spinner Dinanath Ramnaraine suffer a partial muscle tear on his left side.
A third player, fastbowler Mervyn Dillon, was sent home for disciplinary reasons. Late last month, the West Indies dropped a Test series to Sri Lanka 3-0.
Brown, 27, is receiving his first call-up to the senior team. He is a right arm medium-pacer and also a useful left-handed batsman. He made his first class debut in 1999 against India A and his regional one-day debut versus Barbados last year.
Powell, 23, a Jamaican right-handed batsman and right-arm off-spinner, has 48 one-day internationals since making his debut at the 1999 world cup. He has scored 997 runs in one-day internationals at an average of 23.73, with 104 fifties. He has also taken four wickets at an average of 49.50. Bureau Report