{"id":54455,"date":"2019-02-08T10:58:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=54455"},"modified":"2019-02-08T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:58:15","slug":"chris-gayle-back-in-the-west-indies-team-for-england-odi-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/chris-gayle-back-in-the-west-indies-team-for-england-odi-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Gayle back in the West Indies team for England ODI series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opening batsman Chris Gayle has been recalled to the West Indies one-day international squad for the first two games of this month\u2019s five-match series against England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gayle has not played for West Indies since he scored 73 in an 18-run ODI defeat against Bangladesh last July and opted out of the tour to India and Bangladesh in October and November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 39-year-old, who has scored 9,727 runs and racked up 23 centuries in 284 ODIs, was recalled by the West Indies cricket board as it fine-tunes the squad ahead of the World Cup in England next May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spin bowler Ashley Nurse has returned from injury while 23-year-old wicketkeeper Nicholas Pooran earns his first call-up to the national side.\u201cHe is clearly a young player with undoubted talent and we believe he can add value to our middle order,\u201d chairman of selectors Courtney Browne said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs we continue our Cricket World Cup preparations, the upcoming series against the top-ranked ODI side is a great opportunity to gauge where we are as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one-day international series begins in Barbados on Feb. 20 with the first two matches to be played at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown.West Indies are 2-0 up in the test series, with the third and final test starting on Saturday in St Lucia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening batsman Chris Gayle has been recalled to the West Indies one-day international squad for the first two games of this month\u2019s five-match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54457,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54455\/revisions\/54457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}