Cricket West Indies (CWI) have left the door ajar for the Bravo brothers, Sunil Narine, and Kieron Pollard to return to the West Indies ODI team ahead of the World Cup next year. Andre Russell too was a part of this set of players but his recent ODI call-up for Bangladesh series has ended the uncertainty for the all-rounder.

Earlier, CWI chief executive Johnny Grave had stated that players would need to feature in the Super50 Cup, a domestic one-day competition in the West Indies, in order to be considered for selection for white ball cricket. But the tournament schedule clashes with the Big Bash League which results in many of the senior players making themselves unavailable for the Super50.

However, the CWI has decided to prepone the competition; hence, the next season will be held in October this year so that the players who have been out of the national team can once again be considered for selection ahead of the 50-over global event next year and the other assignments thereafter.

“It's a very important tournament for us in preparation for the World Cup. People that want to put their names in the hat for consideration would need to play Super50 and perform,” said the CWI CEO.

The players had opted for Pakistan Super League earlier this year instead of helping their side in the World Cup qualifier while Narine wanted to work on his game before representing the Caribbean side. The CWI had later overlooked them for selection when the West Indian side played against an ICC World XI in a charity match on May 31.

CWI’s ignorance had worsened the situation between the board and the players. Dwayne Bravo, at that time, had commented: “They've given the public the false impressions we don't want to play in the World Cup qualifiers because we went to play for money, but now we're available for free for a good cause and they don't pick us.”

However, Grave had clarified the situation, saying they “can't continually go back to him [Bravo] every time” after his constant refusal of selection. Grave had also spoken of meeting with the players after the IPL to discuss future and he has finally met every one of them individually.

“Jimmy Adams [director cricket operations] and I met with Dwayne, Darren, Pollard and Narine's agent in Trinidad. We met with them individually because they all have different circumstances. I would describe the meetings as positive, as everyone was looking to the future rather than the past.

“We talked through our entire schedule, not just now and to the 2019 World Cup, but also through all the matches and tours scheduled up to the World T20 in Australia 2020.

“We have asked them to send us in writing a summary of their reflections confirming their availability and commitment to play for the Windies in different formats of the game,” Grace was quoted as saying by ESPNcricnfo.

“We changed the contractual year to start July 1st, so that the off-season would be April-June when we would do new contracts, appraisals and renewals, while players in the system can do their core conditioning work, as well as obviously have a break.

“So now we start contracts in July and go almost straight into CPL. Hence in the review it just made sense to continue with white-ball cricket by having the Super50 in November with October to prepare for the change in format.