Amir Jangoo, the wicketkeeper-batter, has been added to West Indies’ T20I squad for the upcoming video games in India as cowl for Jewel Andrew, who sustained a finger harm throughout the third ODI towards India on Saturday. Andrew has not been dominated out of the five-match sequence and “continues to be being monitored and assessed by the medical crew”, a CWI assertion on Monday morning stated.
Andrew, the 19-year-old, had been dismissed for a first-ball duck within the first India vs West Indies ODI, and returned to the XI for the third sport after sitting out the second. Andrew damage a finger when he took the catch to dismiss Naman Dhir contained in the ring at cowl and he needed to go to a hospital for scans quickly after. Luckily for him and West Indies, no fracture was revealed. He, nevertheless, didn’t bat in West Indies’ profitable chase.
Jangoo, 29, is thought to be extra of a long-format participant, however has turned out in seven T20Is for West Indies since making his worldwide debut in December 2024. His document with the bat in these video games is middling: 163 runs at a strike price of 120.74.
His strike price from 34 T20s is poorer at 104.25, however he performed his half in Antigua and Barbuda Falcons’ run to the CPL 2026 title in September, ending with 213 runs, although his strike price continued to be effectively under par: 107.57. His most necessary innings in CPL 2026 got here within the title contest, when he scored 57 not out in 34 balls, hitting 4 fours and three sixes, as Falcons received by eight wickets towards Jamaica Kingsmen.
Jangoo was in glowing kind within the ODIs towards India, scoring 58 not out, 114 and 67 to complete third on the run-scorers’ record throughout groups, his tally of 239 runs solely behind these of Shubman Gill (334) and Shai Hope (278).
The primary India vs West Indies T20I might be performed in Lucknow on Tuesday, with video games to comply with in Ranchi (October 9), Indore (October 11), Hyderabad (October 14) and Bengaluru (October 17).