KINGSTON, Ja­maica – As­ton Vil­la winger Leon Bai­ley’s high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed re­turn to the Reg­gae Boyz line­up has been de­layed due to an in­jury set­back.

Bai­ley, who hasn’t played for Ja­maica since last No­vem­ber due to sus­pen­sion and a self-tak­en hia­tus from the na­tion­al team was ruled out of se­lec­tion due to in­jury.

It means the 27-year-old will miss the up­com­ing games against Nicaragua on Oc­to­ber 10 and Hon­duras on Oc­to­ber 14.

Head coach Steve Mc­Claren says Bai­ley was dis­ap­point­ed to miss out on the squad but needs time to ful­ly re­cov­er.

Bai­ley missed the Sep­tem­ber in­ter­na­tion­al win­dow af­ter pick­ing up a ham­string in­jury dur­ing As­ton Vil­la’s match against Leices­ter on Sep­tem­ber 5.

An­oth­er no­table ab­sence is strik­er Shamar Nichol­son, who re­quest­ed time to get back to full fit­ness af­ter miss­ing out on a prop­er pre­sea­son with Russ­ian club Spar­tak Moscow.

Squad

Goal­keep­ers: An­dre Blake, Shaquan Davis, Jah­mali Waite

De­fend­ers: Damion Lowe, Ethan Pin­nock, Ma­son Hol­gate, Di’Shon Bernard, Dex­ter Lem­bik­isa, Jon Bell, Tayvon Gray, Richard King, Greg Leigh.

Mid­field­ers: Bob­by Reid, Kasey Palmer, Joel Lat­i­beaudiere, Tyreek Magee, Karoy An­der­son.

For­wards: Michail An­to­nio, Ka­heim Dixon, De­marai Grey, Re­nal­do Cephas, Nor­man Camp­bell, Ro­mario Williams.

CMC