Kamil Pooran has been in­clud­ed in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force team ahead of the team's match against Bar­ba­dos in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship at the Queen's Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain which starts Wednes­day.

The Cen­tral Sports open­er has been re­ward­ed for a suc­cess­ful club sea­son that saw him score 200 against the Comets and 112 against Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) II.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia Sports, the 26-year-old bats­man said: “This is an op­por­tu­ni­ty I have been look­ing for.”

He ac­knowl­edges that he has to keep putting in more work and tries to learn every day.

“It feels good scor­ing a few runs be­hind my name, so the con­fi­dence is there,” said Pooran, who al­so ad­mit­ted he is hop­ing to learn from the se­nior play­ers on the team and “try to build my name”.

He will be joined by West In­dies wick­et-keep­er Joshua Da Sil­va, back from South Africa with the West In­dies, and An­der­son Phillip, who is re­turn­ing from the in­jured list.

The trio will take the places of Je­re­my Solozano, Kea­gan Sim­mons, and Justin Man­ick on the team. Solozano has ac­cu­mu­lat­ed 98 runs in the three match­es, with an av­er­age of 16.3. His high­est score this sea­son is 34 against Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes.

Sim­mons was draft­ed in­to the team in the sec­ond match against the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes af­ter Vikash Mo­han’s in­jury against the Vol­ca­noes. Dur­ing the match­es against Hur­ri­canes and the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles, Sim­mons scored 29 runs at an av­er­age of 7.25, with his best score be­ing 15.

Pooran, who opened with Sim­mons when scor­ing his dou­ble-cen­tu­ry, says it is no prob­lem gelling with the Red Force team­mates.

“I know al­most every­one there. We have a very, good re­la­tion­ship with every­one. This will be easy," said Pooran.

Man­ick just had one match against Harpy Ea­gles. The young 21-year-old Pow­er­gen fast bowler came in for some good praise by as­sis­tant coach Rayad Em­rit who stat­ed: “We are go­ing to keep on work­ing with him.”

Em­rit ex­plained Man­ick came in for just one match as a re­place­ment for the in­jured Ter­rence Hinds, with An­der­son Phillip get­ting ready to re­turn this week.

The for­mer West In­dies all­rounder, re­call­ing Man­ick’s de­but per­for­mance, said: “He went well through­out. Ob­vi­ous­ly, there will be but­ter­flies, he was a bit ner­vous.”

Em­rit ac­knowl­edged that grad­u­al­ly dur­ing the con­tin­u­a­tion of the match, Man­ick got bet­ter, say­ing: “He shows a lot of tal­ent, his dis­ci­pline is ex­cel­lent, def­i­nite­ly we are go­ing to stick with him. He is one for the fu­ture.”

Look­ing for­ward to the match against the Bar­ba­di­ans, and the threat they pos­sess with the bat­tery of pace bowlers, Em­rit ex­plained: “We know that their strength is the pac­ers, we al­ready know that. Our bat­ters are not afraid of fast bowl­ing. We are just un­com­fort­able against the ball that is swing­ing.”

Bar­ba­dos, who did not get to prac­tice at the Oval on Mon­day, will be hop­ing to get in some prac­tice at the venue Tues­day. They will be buoyed by the re­turn of West In­dies cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite and fast bowler Akeem Jor­dan both back from West In­dies du­ty on the African con­ti­nent.

Red Force squad

Dar­ren Bra­vo (Cap­tain), Kamil Pooran, Joshua Da Sil­va, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Vikash Mo­han, Amir Jan­goo, Tion Web­ster, Im­ran Khan, An­der­son Phillip, Uth­man Muham­mad, Khary Pierre, Bryan Charles, Jyd Goolie.