Game slipped away from us on opening day, says Corey Collymore
West Indies replaced Corey Collymore and Fidel Edwards with Dwayne Smith and Ian Bradshaw.
Paceman Corey Collymore and Daren Ganga were suprise omissions on Friday when the West Indies announced a preliminary 30-man squad for September's Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa.
Both the teams have made one change each from the elevens that won their respective semi-finals.
Caribbean legend Viv Richards's son Mali, an all-rounder, has joined the West Indies team as temporary cover for Thursday's warm-up match against England 'A'.
The West Indies fast bowler will fly home from the Test tour of England because of a shin injury.
The West Indies included pacemen Corey Collymore and Fidel Edwards for Ian Bradshaw and Dwayne Smith in the team for the match against England.
West Indies are sweating on the fitness of the fast bowler ahead of Monday's tri-series one-day international against Australia.
West Indies tumbled to\ndefeat by Pakistan on the fourth day of the first Test.
India replaced Irfan Pathan with S Sreesanth in the only change to the team that played Australia in the previous match.
The 27-year-old scored 106 as Pakistan reached 336 for six on the first day of the second Test against West Indies.
In an impressive spell of controlled seam bowling, Collymore took three for 27 to help limit India to 235 for nine on day 1 of the first Test.
Former India batsman Lalchand Rajput has been appointed as the coach of Afghanistan cricket team. He replaces Inzamam-ul-Haq, who had stepped down in April this year and became the chief selector of Pakistan. Rajput has been recommended by the BCCI and has been preferred over former South African batting star Herschelle Gibbs and West Indies' Corey Collymore.
Captain Inzamam-ul-Haq struck an unbeaten 64 to keep Pakistan in the hunt for a series levelling win against the West Indies on day three of the second and final Test.
Fast bowler Fidel Edwards took 5 for 38 to bowl out Pakistan for 144 on the second day of the first Test.
Sri Lanka who resumed day two on 250 for four, were bowled out for 354.
Sarwan, who scored nearly 12,000 international runs across formats, joined the camp in Barbados where West Indies are currently preparing for the tri-nation series with Bangladesh and Ireland in Dublin next month.
'Anyone who watched me batting in Tests would know that I was up for it. I was ready to fight it out.'
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