ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Alzarri Joseph has made his re­turn to the West In­dies’ T20 squad for the three re­main­ing T20 in­ter­na­tion­als against Eng­land fol­low­ing his two-game sus­pen­sion.

Joseph is one of two changes to the West In­dies’ 15-man squad, with Bar­ba­di­an all-rounder Shamar Springer re­plac­ing An­dre Rus­sell, who has been ruled out of the se­ries af­ter suf­fer­ing an an­kle in­jury in the first T20 on Sat­ur­day.

The 27-year-old Joseph was hand­ed a two-game sus­pen­sion by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), fol­low­ing his be­hav­iour in the third and fi­nal One Day In­ter­na­tion­al against Eng­land last Wednes­day.

His re­turn will be wel­comed, as the West In­dies’ bowlers have been un­able to con­tain Eng­land’s bats­men, lead­ing to the vis­i­tors hold­ing a com­mand­ing 2-0 lead in the best-of-five se­ries.

The 26-year-old Springer made his T20I de­but dur­ing the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed tour of Sri Lan­ka, where he fea­tured in two match­es.

The third T20I will be played at the Daren Sam­my Crick­et Ground in St Lu­cia on Thurs­day.

Squad

WEST IN­DIES: Rov­man Pow­ell (cap­tain), Ros­ton Chase, Matthew Forde, Shim­ron Het­my­er, Ter­rance Hinds, Shai Hope, Akeal Ho­sein, Alzarri Joseph, Bran­don King, Evin Lewis, Gu­dakesh Motie, Nicholas Pooran, Shamar Springer, Sher­fane Ruther­ford, Ro­mario Shep­herd.

CMC