West Indies announced a quite strong squad for the T20 International series after being whitewashed by Bangladesh in Tests, boosted with the return of hard-hitting batsman Evin Lewis on Friday.

Besides Lewis, who pulled out of the limited-overs tour of India citing personal reasons, Kesrick Williams and Sheldon Cottrell have also made it to the 15-man squad for the three-match T20I Series in Bangladesh, announced by Cricket West Indies on December 14 (Friday).

However, the Caribbean will badly miss the services of their stars -Andre Russell and Ashley Nurse, as the duo are currently recovering from the respective injuries.

While all-rounder Russell is recovering from the knee injury that he picked up just before first India T20I last month, Ashley is nursing a shoulder injury, resulting they haven't been picked for Bangladesh T20Is.

The uncapped 20-year-old Sherfane Rutherford, who is best known for scoring 230 runs in eight matches for West Indies B in Global T20 League, has once again recalled for Bangladesh T20Is after not getting a game in his international debut series in India.

The three-match T20I series will get underway with the first match to be played on December 17 (Monday) in Sylhet followed by second on December 20 and final match on 22 at the same venue -Dhaka.

West Indies Squad:

Carlos Brathwaite (c), Darren Bravo, Shimron Hetmyer, Fabian Allen, Kesrick Williams, Keemo Paul, Khary Pierre, Evin Lewis, Nicholas Pooran, Rovman Powell (VC), Denesh Ramdin, Shai Hope, Sherfane Rutherford, Sheldon Cottrell, Oshane Thomas

(With Cricbuzz Inputs)