BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies fast bowling icon Michael Holding is surprised by the non-selection of rookie speedster Oshane Thomas in the 14-man squad to tour England starting next week.
“The few guys I’ve seen on international tours, one of them I’ve a little bit surprised he wasn’t selected in the original squad and that’s Oshane Thomas,” Holding said on the Youtube cricket show ‘Mikey – Holding Nothing Back’.
“I don’t know if they’re going to change anything at all to do with this particular tour because these are extraordinary circumstances but I would’ve been hoping that Oshane Thomas would have been in the original squad.”
Thomas was one of six fast bowlers named in the reserves for the England tour with Test regular Shannon Gabriel, along with the uncapped Keon Harding, Preston McSween, Anderson Phillip and Marquino Mindley also included.
West Indies depart the Caribbean on Tuesday via private charter for the historic England tour which will mark cricket’s first-ever “bio-secure” Test series, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
