Jomel Warrican

An accurate left-arm fingerspinner who can toss the ball up as well as get it to fizz through, Jomel Warrican took a match haul of six wickets on his Test debut against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 2015. Earlier that year, Tony Cozier, writing for ESPNcricinfo, had picked him among the players who had impressed him. But it wasn't until about six years later that Warrican became West Indies' first-choice spinner in Test cricket.

Born in St Vincent, he originally wanted to become a fast bowler, but when he moved to Combermere School in Barbados, Roddy Estwick, the former West Indies seamer, suggested Warrican switch to spin and that has been his main skill since.

He gained vast experience at domestic level, playing more than 100 first-class matches in his first 13 years, and took 49 wickets in the 2014-15 West Indies first-class competition, including two eight-fors, at an average of 14.9. In 2025, he took 19 wickets across two Tests on the Pakistan tour, at the absurd average of 9. His nine wickets in the second of the Tests took West Indies to their first win in Pakistan in 34 years. Warrican was then rewarded with the Test vice-captaincy ahead of the home Test series against Australia.