Grenada's Devon Smith has replaced injured Chris Gayle in the West Indies squad for their upcoming tour of South Africa.
The 33-year-old left-hander last played a Test three and a half years ago but has been in good form domestically, scoring a hundred and two half-centuries in his last three matches for the Windward Islands.
Smith has represented the West Indies in 33 Tests since debuting in 2003 against Australia in Guyana. He joins a 15-man squad missing star opener Gayle, whose withdrawal due to an unspecified injury was announced on Friday.
Darren Bravo was last month replaced by Assad Fudadin after opting out of the tour for personal reasons.
West Indies play three Tests, three Twenty20 internationals and five on-day internationals on their first programme since a tour of India collapsed in October amid a dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board.
The Test series begins on December 17 at Centurion, live on Sky Sports.
Squad: Ramdin (Capt), Benn, Blackwood, Braithwaite, Chanderpaul, Cottrell, Fudadin, Gabriel, Holder, Johnson, Roach, Samuels, Smith, Taylor, Walton.
Source: cric sports/ja observer
Good news some would say that our Grenadian Brother Devon Smith is included in the West Indies Team to tour South Africe, but that was only so quote, because of the sustain injury (surprise)of the boss man Mr Chris Gayle -Wow- now lets ask a question as to what the HELL is happening with the West Indies Cricket Board,its administrators,and THE players and some would ask where are the real WEST INDIANS CRICKETERS for today remembering the ones who once gave their Blood and Sweat to play for the west indies,while representing their countries ,oh how times have change but today what we have is a bunch of so called Cricketers who walks around the playin fields looking like Americans Rap stars with their big long gold chains in their necks and some of them is build like weightlifters ,yes where are the Clive Lloyd,Andy Roberts,Big Birds,Holdings,Frederick ,Gibbs,yes these men used to play for the West Indies and also represent their country with pride and passion while earning peanuts
now today they all acts like big shots and big heads at the embarrassment of die hard westindian cricket lovers all over the world, and whats more if you were to check the latest world ranking the(west indies )cricket Team is at rock bottom so WICB/PLAYERS/TRAINERS/COACHES please restore the pride of the caribbean cricket lovers and save us from being the laughing stock of world cricket.
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By: gabe 12/3/2014 7:20:31 AM
Wellsaidmybrother
By: johnwayne 12/9/2014 11:17:51 AM
The Plains man My Bro.Devon Smith done good against a SAX11,but ah waiting to see if he will be selected come Test Time now that the godfather Mr Chris G. is out ,ah watching,
