'Indefinite break, not retirement'
Daren Sammy walked back his earlier statement about Jason Holder stepping away from ODI cricket.
Daren Sammy's clarified the record: Jason Holder hasn't retired from ODIs — he's taken an indefinite break. Sammy called his initial wording a mistake.
Holder's still active everywhere else. He played in Major League Cricket 2026 for the Los Angeles Knight Riders, taking key wickets with Andre Russell in a tight win over San Francisco. He's playing T20 at franchise and international level, which means he's fit and in demand.
No word yet on when or if he'll return to ODIs, but West Indies selectors will keep watching his form in the shorter formats.
CricHubb Take
The distinction matters: Sammy left the door firmly open, and Holder's MLC form suggests he's still got appetite for cricket. Whether West Indies can coax him back depends on how his T20 arc plays out over the next 12 months.