Guyana’s middle-order batsman Travis Dowlin was belatedly rewarded for his form in the Twenty20 form of the game when he was called up as a replacement for the injured Dwayne Bravo in the Stanford Twenty20 squad.
The Stanford Twenty20 Superstars are preparing for a lucrative US$20 million clash against an England Twenty20 team on November 1 in Antigua subject to the hearing of an injunction by the Digicel telephone company agant the West Indies Cricket Board
According to reports, Dowlin recently signed his Stanford contract and now joins his more illustrious team-mates World number one batsman and Cricketer of the Year Shivnarine Chanderpaul, West Indies Vice-Captain Ramnaresh Sarwan and Twenty20 regular Lennox Cush on the Stanford 17-man squad.
Dowlin has been a regular member of the Guyana national team scoring close to three thousand runs in sixty-two first class matches with four centuries.
In The Twenty20 format he has notched up two hundred and forty three runs with three half centuries at a respectable average of 48.60 with a top score of 80 not out made in the inaugural Stanford regional tournament.
The Stanford 17-man squad reads: Lionel Baker, Cush, Dowlin, Andre Fletcher, Chad Hampson, Sylvester Joseph, Dave Mohammed, Darren Powell, Jerome Taylor, Sulieman Benn, Chanderpaul, Rayad Emrit, Chris Gayle, Lyndon James (Wkpr.), Xavier Marshall, Kieron Pollard and Sarwan.