{"id":14591,"date":"2025-05-17T11:18:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T11:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/west-indies-cricket-roston-chase-named-as-new-test-captain\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T11:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T11:18:27","slug":"west-indies-cricket-roston-chase-named-as-new-test-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/west-indies-cricket-roston-chase-named-as-new-test-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies Cricket: Roston Chase named as new Test captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Roston Chase has been appointed West Indies Test captain even though he has not played a match in the format for more than two years.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old all-rounder succeeds Kraigg Brathwaite, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c39jlnvw7xpo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">stepped down<\/a> from the role at the end of March after 39 matches in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cricket West Indies (CWI) shortlisted five other players in addition to Chase for the position including Joshua Da Silva, John Campbell and Jomel Warrican.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decision to select Barbados-born Chase was made after a detailed assessment process across six key areas which included psychometric testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Indies coach Daren Sammy said he &#8220;fully endorsed&#8221; the appointment of Chase, whose vice-captain will be 32-year-old Warrican. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our new captain has earned the respect of his peers and understands the responsibility that comes with the role,&#8221; Sammy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has shown the leadership qualities we need to take this team forward. I urge fans across the region to rally behind him &#8211; we&#8217;re building something special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chase has played 49 Tests, the last of which came against South Africa in March 2023, with West Indies having played 13 matches in the format since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chase has scored 2,265 Test runs at an average of 26.33, with five hundreds, and taken 85 wickets at 46.00 with his off-breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His first assignment as captain will be a three-Test series against Australia which starts in Bridgetown on 25 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chase is part of West Indies&#8217; squad for their white-ball tour of England, which starts on 29 May. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shai Hope, West Indies&#8217; limited-overs skipper, asked not to be considered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c98941r5rqjo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roston Chase has been appointed West Indies Test captain even though he has not played a match in the format for more than two years. The 33-year-old all-rounder succeeds Kraigg Brathwaite, who stepped down from the role at the end of March after 39 matches in charge. Cricket West Indies (CWI) shortlisted five other players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14593,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions\/14593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}