West Indies' top players will make themselves available for the summer tour to Australia, despite their ongoing dispute with cricket administrators, local media quoted all-rounder Dwayne Bravo as saying. “We are all going to make ourselves available, that is definite,” Bravo told Tuesday's Age newspaper. “We are looking forward to getting back playing international cricket.” Top West Indies players, including Bravo and former skipper Chris Gayle, refused to play in a losing two-match Test series at home against Bangladesh in July due to a dispute over contracts and payments. Although the players ended their boycott after the series, the West Indies Cricket Board has stuck to its guns, sticking with a weaker back-up squad for a one-day international series against Bangladesh and for the ICC Champions Trophy tournament that ended Monday. The protracted dispute has threatened to derail Australia's cricket summer, traditionally a ratings bonanza for broadcasters and sponsors, with interest likely to plunge with the prospect of a one-sided white-wash. Bravo, who has been out of Test cricket for more than a year due to an ankle injury, said the players would front up for a regional tournament in Guyana later this month to make themselves available for selection. “It's a long while since I played a Test match and I want to get back on the Test pitch. The last time was against Australia and now I am hopefully going to be back playing Australia again,” he said. Tim May, chief executive of the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations, said he would now expect a “greater urgency” to resolve the dispute. “The West Indies players have made themselves available so you would like to think that the West Indies board would make some better decisions,” he said. The first Test starts in Brisbane on Nov. 26. Zimbabwe names squad Zimbabwe Cricket has included two uncapped players for the upcoming series against Kenya and Bangladesh. The Zimbabweans will host Kenya for five one-day internationals beginning next week before flying out to Bangladesh on Oct. 20 for a return series with the Asian side. Meanwhile, former captain Tatenda Taibu, who is serving a 10-match suspension, has been included in the squad although he will only complete his suspension on the Bangladesh tour. Squad: Prosper Utseya (captain), Tatenda Taibu, Mark Vermeulen, Brendan Taylor, Hamilton Masakadza, Stuart Matsikenyeri, Chris Mpofu, Sean Williams, Charles Coventry, Elton Chigumbura, Graeme Cremer, Forster Mutizwa, Malcolm Waller, Raymond Price, Trevor Garwe, Kyle Jarvis.
