THE West Indies selectors yesterday extended their policy of out with the old, in with the new for the series of seven one-day internationals against World Cup champions Australia, starting in Kingston May 17.
Four players from the recent World Cup in South Africa are replaced by four-newcomers.
Gone are Wavell Hinds, the left-handed batsman and useful limited-overs medium-pacer who has 70 one-day internationals to his credit, and fast bowlers Nixon McLean, 45 matches, and Pedro Collins, 23 matches.
The other World Cup absentee is deposed captain Carl Hooper, who effectively ended his international career when he withdrew from the series after he was selected for the first Test.
In their places come left-handed opener Devon Smith, all-rounders Ryan Hurley and David Bernard and off-spinner Omari Banks.
Smith and Bernard, aged 21, and Banks, 20, all made their debuts in the Test series but are yet to appear in a one-day international.
Hurley was not even in champions Barbados' Red Stripe Bowl team last August.
Hurley has had an on and off career for Barbados since scoring 122 and taking five wickets in an innings against South African provincial team Free State in Bridgetown in 1997, aged 20.
He only returned to the Barbados team in the 2003 season, presumably impressing the selectors with his 337 runs (average 33.7), including 116 against the Windward Islands, 18 wickets (at 26.27) with off-spin and his brilliant ground fielding that earned him a summons as substitute during the recent third Test at Kensington.
The omission of Hinds is sudden and surprising.
He had already been replaced by Smith in the Test team after the second match in Port-of-Spain and now he gets the double whammy.
It was only last November that he was ending the series in India with an even 100 in the third and final Test in Calcutta and 295 runs at an average of 42.14 and a strike rate of 85.5 in the seven one-day internationals.
A promotion to the vice-captaincy followed on the tour of Bangladesh when Hooper needed an operation on his knees.
His batting faltered in the World Cup where he averaged only 18 in the six matches and he was demoted down the order for the last match. But his steady medium-pace brought him seven wickets at an average of 12.57, behind only Vasbert Drakes' 16.
He needs to put in an incontestable performance in the Red Stripe Bowl later this year to regain the selectors' favour for the double-tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa at the end of the year.
Daren Ganga, who came back into the Test team against Australia after a break of a year and produced successive hundreds in the first two Tests, is obviously regarded as a batsman solely for the longer game and is omitted.
The diminutive, 20-year-old wicket-keeper Carlton Baugh, who filled in for the injured Ridley Jacobs in the second and third Tests, gives way now that the experienced Jacobs has recovered from his groin injury of the first Test.
The squad (with ages and number of one-day internationals): Brian Lara, captain (24, 209); Omari Banks (20, 0), David Bernard (21, 0), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (28, 132), Corey Collymore (25, 32), Merv Dillon (28, 80), Vasbert Drakes (33, 23), Chris Gayle (22, 24), Ryan Hurley (27, 0), Ridley Jacobs (35, 118), Jermaine Lawson (21, 6), Ricardo Powell (24, 64), Marlon Samuels (22, 40), Ramnaresh Sarwan (22, 34), Devon Smith (21, 0).
Itinerary: May 17, 1st ODI at Sabina Park, Jamaica; May 18, 2nd ODI at Sabina Park; May 21, 3rd ODI at Beausejours Stadium, St.Lucia; May 24, 4th ODI, Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad; May 25, 5th ODI, Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad; May 30, 6th ODI, New Queen's Park, Grenada; 7th ODI, New Queen's Park, Grenada.