BRIDGETOWN–Dash­ing for­mer West In­dies bats­man Dwayne Smith will re­tire from do­mes­tic one-day crick­et for Bar­ba­dos Pride, ahead of this month's Re­gion­al Su­per50.

The 33-year-old said he was no longer a part of the se­lec­tors plans and though he was hurt by not be­ing able to fin­ish his ca­reer at home in this year's 50-overs tour­na­ment, he had lit­tle choice but to call it quits.

Bar­ba­dos and An­tigua are the hosts for the 2017 Su­per50 which runs from Jan­u­ary 24 to Feb­ru­ary 18.

"I ba­si­cal­ly have to make one big de­ci­sion now for sure and that's I'm go­ing to send in my res­ig­na­tion from 50-overs crick­et for Bar­ba­dos Pride, bank­ing on the back of not be­ing giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty to fin­ish my ca­reer at home," Smith told Line and Length Net­work.

"I re­al­ly want­ed to, I've asked the se­lec­tors, I've spo­ken to them but ob­vi­ous­ly they had their dif­fer­ent plans and I guess I didn't fit in.

"It was touch­ing, it hurt me a lot be­cause I re­al­ly want­ed � even if it was one game I played in the 50-overs com­pe­ti­tion com­ing up � I would have been hap­py."

Smith has gar­nered 3500 runs from 183 List A games at an av­er­age of 23 but had a dis­ap­point­ing out­ing in last year's Su­per50 when he man­aged just 116 runs from eight in­nings at an av­er­age of 14.

Pride reached the fi­nal be­fore los­ing out to even­tu­al cham­pi­ons Trinidad Red Force in the fi­nal.

The right-hand­ed Smith, a fix­ture on the in­ter­na­tion­al Twen­ty20 cir­cuit, said he had been en­cour­aged to end his Pride ca­reer at home and was hurt he could not bow out in this way.

"A lot of the young­sters had asked me to fin­ish in Bar­ba­dos be­cause I had told them I was not go­ing to con­tin­ue but they re­al­ly, re­al­ly want­ed [me to fin­ish at home]," said Smith, who quit first class crick­et two years ago.

"I re­al­ly want­ed to fin­ish at home see­ing that I knew the tour­na­ment was go­ing to play at home but life goes on, I can't re­al­ly dwell on that."

He con­tin­ued: It's very touch­ing for me be­cause it hurt me a lot but I think I've had a lot of good times with Bar­ba­dos crick­et. I can say I'm one of those who are very pa­tri­ot­ic. I love Bar­ba­dos and I would do any­thing for Bar­ba­dos crick­et and I will hope that the young­sters go on and con­tin­ue the good work be­cause we've been do­ing some good work.

"For the last two years or so, the team they have put to­geth­er have been gelling well to­geth­er and I love to see that ca­ma­raderie."

Smith's in­ter­na­tion­al ca­reer has been over for some time. He has not played a One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al or T20 In­ter­na­tion­al for West In­dies in two years, and said he had ac­cept­ed this re­al­i­ty even though noth­ing for­mal had been com­mu­ni­cat­ed.

He made 1560 runs in 105 ODIs and 582 runs in 33 T20s.

"I know for sure I'm not go­ing to play for West In­dies any­more, I know that for sure � judg­ing from the se­lec­tions that have gone on be­fore. But I'm not too both­ered about that be­cause I have a life to live," he stressed.

"It's just for Dwayne Smith now to move on. I've had a very good ca­reer with Bar­ba­dos crick­et, prob­a­bly could have been bet­ter.

He added: "My thing was to play for Bar­ba­dos, fin­ish a good year and let the young­sters take over. But it's been good for me so I'll just hope the young­sters con­tin­ue to do the good work that Bar­ba­dos has been do­ing over the years." CMC