Former captain Chris Gayle has been chosen by the West Indies for the first time in 14 months as part of their one-day squad to play England later this month.

The 32-year-old opener, whose public spat with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) resulted in him being ineligible for almost a year, was included in a 15-man squad announced on Monday for the three-match series that begins on June 16.

The powerful Jamaican left-hander is the most prolific West Indian century-maker in ODIs, with 19 hundreds in 228 matches since his debut in 1999.

But Gayle played his last match for the Windies in March last year – the quarter-final defeat to Pakistan in the World Cup.

He was critical of the WICB in a radio interview the following month after being omitted from the subsequent one-day series at home against Pakistan.

Those comments, many hostile to coach Ottis Gibson, led to his lengthy spell out of the team. Gayle instead played lucrative Twenty20 tournaments in India, Zimbabwe, Australia and Bangladesh.

In March, a meeting between Gayle and the WICB, facilitated by CARICOM ministers, cleared the way for his return. Last Sunday, the few residual matters in the long-running impasse were sorted out to clear the way for his return.

The squad is again led by Darren Sammy and includes a number of players who were recently playing in the Indian Premier League, which clashed with the Test series in England.

One of them, Dwayne Bravo, returns as vice captain while fellow allrounders Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell and Dwayne Smith also boost the squad.

Opener Lendl Simmons is chosen again after recovering from a finger injury that ruled him out of the home series against Australia in March.

There was no place for Test openers Adrian Barath and Kieron Powell, who have struggled in the first two matches in the series in England.

Denesh Ramdin, the Test wicketkeeper, returns to the side at the expense of Carlton Baugh, who played against Australia.

West Indies: Darren Sammy (capt), Dwayne Bravo (vc), Tino Best, Darren Bravo, Johnson Charles, Fidel Edwards, Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons, Dwayne Smith.