ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Three West In­di­ans who im­pressed on the re­cent tour of Nepal have been re­ward­ed by be­ing named in West In­dies white ball teams to face Bangladesh lat­er this month.

For­mer West In­dies Un­der-19 cap­tain Ac­k­eem Au­guste has earned his maid­en call up to the ODI team, while left-arm pac­er Ra­mon Sim­monds and Amir Jan­goo have been in­clud­ed in the T20I squad.

How­ev­er, no room has been found for vet­er­ans Shim­ron Het­my­er, Ja­son Hold­er or Kyle May­ers, while the promis­ing Jew­el An­drew has al­so been left out.

The two teams, which will face Bangladesh in three ODIs and three T20Is be­tween Oc­to­ber 18 and 31 in Dha­ka and Chat­togram, were re­leased by Crick­et West In­dies on Wednes­day.

The 22-year-old Au­guste was the third high­est run scor­er on the ill-fat­ed T20I tour of Nepal, which West In­dies lost 2-1.

He scored 73 runs in the three match­es at an av­er­age of 36.50, in­clud­ing an un­beat­en 41 in the last game which West In­dies won by 10 wick­ets.

Au­guste is one of three changes to the Windies’ ODI squad that record­ed their first bi-lat­er­al ODI se­ries win over Pak­istan in 33 years and their first home se­ries tri­umph in 37 years, when they de­feat­ed them 2-1 back in Au­gust.

He re­places An­drew, who failed to im­press on the tour of Nepal, while Al­ick Athanaze has been re­called in place of the in­jured Evin Lewis and left-arm spin­ner Khary Pierre re­places Matthew Forde, who is al­so re­cu­per­at­ing from an in­jury.

Left-arm spin­ner Khary Pierre, who made his Test de­but against In­dia ear­li­er this month, has earned a re­call to the short­er for­mat to sup­port Gu­dakesh Motie and Ros­ton Chase in the spin de­part­ment.

Head coach Daren Sam­my said he was ex­cit­ed to con­tin­ue the pro­gres­sion of the ODI team while ex­pos­ing more play­ers to strength­en the pool for the 2027 World Cup.

“The squad as­sem­bled will strive to main­tain a win­ning men­tal­i­ty and strong team co­he­sion, es­sen­tial com­po­nents for long-term suc­cess ahead of the World Cup.

“Fac­ing Bangladesh pro­vides an­oth­er op­por­tu­ni­ty to earn cru­cial points in our push for au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the show­piece event,” Sam­my said.

“The se­lec­tion of Ac­k­eem re­flects the path­way Crick­et West In­dies is cre­at­ing for our emerg­ing play­ers who have shown the qual­i­ties to per­form at the in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el. He is a play­er for the fu­ture, one who has pro­gressed from Un­der-15s to the se­nior lev­el, and an­oth­er Acad­e­my grad­u­ate to fea­ture in an in­ter­na­tion­al squad this year.”

Mean­while, Jan­goo, the top run scor­er on the tour of Nepal with 109 runs at an av­er­age of 54.50, and Sim­monds, who took four wick­ets in his de­but se­ries, tied for third most, have been draft­ed in­to the T20I team.

Jan­goo has been se­lect­ed as the sec­ond wick­et­keep­ing op­tion, while Sim­monds al­so earned his place fol­low­ing an im­pres­sive show­ing in the Caribbean Pre­mier League where he took 13 wick­ets.

CWI al­so re­vealed that Kea­cy Car­ty, Gu­dakesh Motie, Sher­fane Ruther­ford, along with Au­guste and Jan­goo had been sent to a prepara­to­ry camp at the Su­per Kings Acad­e­my in Chen­nai, In­dia, in an ef­fort to pro­vide play­ers with valu­able ex­po­sure to sub-con­ti­nent con­di­tions in ad­vance of the se­ries.

CWI’s Di­rec­tor of Crick­et, Miles Bas­combe said it was im­por­tant for play­ers to get ac­cus­tomed to those con­di­tions, es­pe­cial­ly with the 2026 T20 World Cup be­ing held in Sri Lan­ka and In­dia.

“With the 2026 T20 World Cup around the cor­ner, it is im­por­tant for our play­ers to get as much prac­tice as pos­si­ble in these con­di­tions, with that tour­na­ment be­ing held in In­dia and Sri Lan­ka.”

“In ad­di­tion to the im­por­tant as­pect of ac­cli­ma­ti­sa­tion, the camp will fea­ture skill and tac­ti­cal train­ing and de­vel­op­ment spe­cif­ic to those con­di­tions, which is crit­i­cal to prepar­ing the play­ers ahead of this se­ries as well as next year’s World Cup,” Bas­combe said.

TEAMS

WEST IN­DIES ODI SQUAD: Shai Hope (cap­tain), Al­ick Athanaze, Ac­k­eem Au­guste, Je­di­ah Blades, Kea­cy Car­ty, Ros­ton Chase, Justin Greaves, Amir Jan­goo, Shamar Joseph, Bran­don King, Gu­dakesh Motie, Khary Pierre, Sher­fane Ruther­ford, Jay­den Seales, Ro­mario Shep­herd.

WEST IN­DIES T20I SQUAD: Shai Hope (cap­tain), Al­ick Athanaze, Ac­k­eem Au­guste, Ros­ton Chase, Ja­son Hold­er, Akeal Ho­sein, Amir Jan­goo, Shamar Joseph, Bran­don King, Gu­dakesh Motie, Rov­man Pow­ell, Sher­fane Ruther­ford, Jay­den Seales, Ro­mario Shep­herd, Ra­mon Sim­monds.

West In­dies Tour of Bangladesh 2025

First ODI: Oc­to­ber 18- Mir­pur, Dha­ka

Sec­ond ODI: Oc­to­ber 21- Mir­pur, Dha­ka

Third ODI: Oc­to­ber 23- Mir­pur, Dha­ka

1st T20I: Oc­to­ber 27- Chat­togram

2nd T20I: Oc­to­ber 29- Chat­togram

3rd T20I: Oc­to­ber 31 – Chat­togram

(CMC)