OUT-of-favour batsman Sewnarine Chattergoon has been called up to replace the injured Narsingh Deonarine in the Guyana squad for next month’s Caribbean Twenty20 Championship. The 27-year-old Deonarine was named in the original 14-man squad named last week but continues to struggle with a shoulder injury which has prevented him from practicing.
Guyana, who won this year’s inaugural CT20 by beating Barbados in the final, face Jamaica in their opening match of the January 10-23 tournament in Antigua.

The 29-year-old Chattergoon, who has played four Tests and 18 One-Day Internationals for the West Indies, has struggled to get the ball away in his ten T20 matches for Guyana and his selection ahead of West Indies Under-19 opener Rajendra Chandrika, the attacking Shemroy Barrington and former Windies ODI left-hander Leon Johnson is surprising.

Chattergoon averages under 18, is yet to score a T20 fifty and has a strike rate of less than a run-a-ball. Both he and Travis Dowlin were dropped from Guyana’s team for this year’s WICB One-Day Championship in Jamaica after their poor run in the Airtel Champions League in South Africa back in September.

The Guyanese, who won the first regional T20 tournament in the West Indies in Antigua four years ago before losing to Jamaica in the semi-final of the next one two years later, will travel to Trinidad on December 27 for three practice matches before retuning home on December 31.

SQUAD – Ramnaresh Sarwan (Captain), Shiv Chanderpaul, Richard Ramdeen, Travis Dowlin, Steven Jacobs, Royston Crandon, Jonathon Foo, Derwin Christian, Esuan Crandon, Veerasammy Permaul, Davindra Bishoo, Chris Barnwell, Andre Stoll, Sewnarine Chattergoon, Ravindra Seeram (coach), Carl Moore (manager).