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Simmons flown in to replace Fletcher

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Mumbai, March 29, 2016: Andre Fletcher’s hamstring harm, that he endured amid West Indies’ annihilation against Afghanistan on Sunday, has brought about the batsman being sent home. Lendl Simmons, who was pulled back from the West Indies World Twenty20 squad attributable to a back damage, has been flown in front of Thursday’s elimination round against India.

The West Indies’ media supervisor Philip Spooner affirmed that Simmons has been “looked for as a substitution” for the harmed Fletcher. It would now be up to the ICC occasion specialized council to endorse the substitution. Given that Fletcher endured a damage on the field, it ought to simply be a convention for Simmons to be incorporated into the squad.

While opening the innings, Fletcher pulled his hamstring in the fifth over of what ended up being a useless pursue and came back to the hole. Despite the fact that he came back to the center in the last over in Nagpur, he was obviously attempting to try and stroll amid the three balls he spent in the center towards the end.

Fletcher played a match-winning thump for the West Indies amid its gathering diversion against Sri Lanka. His damage could well present Simmons with a chance to make a detriment for India at the Wankhede Stadium, the home-ground of his IPL establishment.

Just before West Indies left for India, Simmons was supplanted in the squad by new kid on the block Evin Lewis. The youthful batsman scored seven-ball duck on presentation against Afghanistan.