PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters)
Opener Sherwin Campbell launches his attempt to get back in the West Indies team when he leads Barbados in the Caribbean's one-day cricket competition starting next week.

Campbell, named at the weekend to captain Barbados, has been out of action since returning last February from the West Indies tour of Australia where they lost the Test series 5-0. Up to that tour, Campbell was the Test team's vice-captain, but since then injury has prevented him playing at the highest regional or international level.

He missed all of South Africa's tour of the Caribbean earlier this year, along with the West Indies tour to Zimbabwe and Kenya during June and July. Campbell suffered from a very painful upper right arm and shoulder but has now been passed fit to play and will be seeking to regain his place with West Indies, for whom he has played 51 Tests, scoring 2,856 runs at 32.82.

Campbell's first assignment as Barbados skipper will be next Tuesday against Antigua in Guyana, the venue for zone B in the Red Stripe Bowl limited overs tournament. The other teams in zone B are hosts Guyana and the southern Windward Islands. Zone A hosts Jamaica will play the northern Windward Islands, with Trinidad and Tobago and a Leeward Islands XI completing the group. The winners and runner-ups of the two zones will meet in the semifinals, with those matches and the final being played in Jamaica in mid-October.

Campbell's opposite number against Antigua is expected to be Ridley Jacobs, the West Indian vice-captain and wicketkeeper, who was banned from his side's second and final Test on their tour of Zimbabwe. Jacobs was suspended after being found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute. He had made a stumping in an earlier triangular series one-day match against India without the ball in his gloves. West Indies captain Carl Hooper is expected to arrive in Guyana on Wednesday from his home in Australia to complete preparations for the competition.

Former Test skipper Brian Lara returned to the Caribbean only last week after being delayed in the United States in the aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington. Lara had gone to Florida to have a medical examination and check-up on his eyes and his chronic upper thigh injury, which had been worrying him for more than two years, and also cut short his tour of Zimbabwe. Lara has suggested, on return, that he does not want to be any "figure of authority" in the Trinidad and Tobago team but will be "giving his all" to make sure they do well in the competition.

Trinidad and Tobago will be captained by leg-spinner Dinanath Ramnarine, who also had to return from Zimbabwe early because of a strained side muscle.

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