West Indies have named their squads for the white-ball tour of India, completing the squad picture on both sides after India's own squad announcement earlier this month. Shai Hope will captain West Indies across the tour, which opens with three ODIs from September 27 before a five-match T20I series starts October 6.
The standout inclusion is 20-year-old opening batter Kamil Pooran, who has been named in the 15-member T20I squad for his first senior call-up. The selection rewards an eye-catching CPL 2026 campaign in which Pooran scored 273 runs in eight innings at a strike rate of 159.64 and an average of 39. He joins a T20I squad still built around established names at the top and middle of the order.
Shimron Hetmyer has been rested for the three-match ODI series but is expected to link up with the squad when the T20I series begins on October 6, with the board citing an extended recovery period following his CPL 2026 workload. Jason Holder does not feature in either squad for this tour. Both absences thin out West Indies' experienced core for the ODI leg in particular, putting more responsibility on Hope's leadership and on the middle order around him.
West Indies arrive with a squad blending senior leadership under Hope with fresh talent in Pooran, while resting two established white-ball names ahead of a long assignment across both formats. India, for their part, will also be missing several regulars from the ODI leg because of the overlapping Asian Games commitments in Japan, which run into early October — meaning both sides go into the ODI series with squads reshaped around absences rather than at full strength.
With several first-choice players unavailable for one leg or the other, this series is shaping up as an opportunity for squad depth to be tested on both sides rather than a clash of full-strength line-ups. Pooran's call-up in particular is the kind of story worth tracking through the T20I leg — a young opener with a proven CPL strike rate getting a senior chance against a full-strength Indian bowling attack is a genuine audition, not just a squad-filler selection.
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Squad details and player workload notes are verified against same-day reporting, current as of September 20, 2026.
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