Campbell returns, Roach dropped for Australia Tests

West In­dies fast-bowler, Ke­mar Roach, has not been se­lect­ed for West In­dies' up­com­ing Test se­ries against Aus­tralia.

In­stead, John Camp­bell re­turns to the squad, bol­ster­ing the op­tions at the top of the or­der. Af­ter a pro­lif­ic do­mes­tic sea­son in­clu­sive of three cen­turies, back­ing up a strong show­ing in the 2023-2024 sea­son, Kevlon An­der­son earns a maid­en call up; while on the back of his re­cent ODI form, Kea­cy Car­ty earns a re­call to the squad, with ODI Vice-cap­tain Bran­don King se­cur­ing a first-time in­clu­sion. In con­junc­tion with the re­turn of lim­it­ed overs cap­tain Shai Hope, these se­lec­tions are in­tend­ed to for­ti­fy a bat­tling line-up that is ex­pect­ed to sus­tain pres­sure on the op­pos­ing at­tack.

Jay­den Seales, Alzarri Joseph, and Shamar Joseph head­line the fast-bowl­ing at­tack. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, Jo­hann Layne, a 21-year-old prod­uct of the West In­dies Acad­e­my, who claimed 63 first-class wick­ets in 17 match­es, along with An­der­son Phillip, who re­cent­ly cap­tured a 5-wick­et haul for West In­dies A against South Africa A, have be­ing called up to pro­vide re­in­force­ment. Spin re­spon­si­bil­i­ties will be han­dled by Cap­tain, Ros­ton Chase and Vice-Cap­tain, Jomel War­ri­can.

West In­dies Test Squad for Se­ries Against Aus­tralia:

Ros­ton Chase (Cap­tain)

Jomel War­ri­can (Vice Cap­tain)

Kevlon An­der­son

Kraigg Brath­waite

John Camp­bell

Kea­cy Car­ty

Justin Greaves

Shai Hope

Tevin Im­lach

Alzarri Joseph

Shamar Joseph

Bran­don King

Jo­hann Layne

Mikyle Louis

An­der­son Phillip

Jay­den Seales