ST. JOHNS ANTIGUA: Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced Shai Hope and Rovman Powell as the new captains of the West Indies ODI and T20I captains respectively. The wicketkeeper-batter Hope and batting all-rounder Powell will take over from Nicholas Pooran, who stepped down from the positions last November following the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia.

Shai Hope was named West Indies one-day international captain and Powell the new Twenty20 skipper. Their appointments came after Nicholas Pooran stepped down from both positions in November following West Indies' early elimination at the T20 World Cup in Australia.

Both men had served as vice-captains under Pooran, and their first assignments will be the upcoming tour of South Africa in March where the West Indies face the Proteas in three ODIs and as many as T20Is from March 16 to 28, following two matches in the ICC World Test Championship.

Hope became vice-captain for a second time in June 2022 and played his 100th ODI for the West Indies against India in July last year. He has played 104 ODIs and was recently selected in the ICC ODI Team of the Year for 2022. Meanwhile, Powell was the captain of Jamaica Tallawahs which won the Caribbean Premier League last year. He also led the Jamaica Scorpions to the CG United Super50 Cup title in November. Powell has also led the West Indies in three ODIs and one T20I.

West Indies will co-host the T20 World Cup next year with the United States.

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