WI Coach Says Bulk of World Cup T20 Squad is Already Selected

West Indies white ball coach, Daren Sammy, says he is settled on the majority of the squad for the T20 World Cup which is set to bowl off in the Caribbean and the United States in June.

With the tournament now only eight weeks away, Sammy said the personnel was all but settled with only fine-tuning left to be done.

Sammy says since taking over they’ve selected squads and exposed about 22 players over the last year in preparation for the global event and they are now down to a core of 15 to 16 players.

Sammy says over the past year they afforded different people different opportunities over a consistent period of time in different roles, and says at this stage he is almost sure what his world cup squad will look like.

Daren Sammy.

Sammy captained the West Indies to back two T20 World Cup titles in 2012 and 2016, and also reached the final four of the 2014 edition in Bangladesh.

West Indies will feature in Group C and will face New Zealand, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Uganda in the preliminary stage.

Their group campaign will be spread across Guyana, St Lucia and Trinidad.

West Indies will enter a camp in Antigua starting May 10 to hone their preparations for the event in which a record 20 teams will participate.