Ray Price returns to Zimbabwe squad

Ray Price makes his return after three years out of the international fold © Getty Images

Ray Price, the Zimbabwe left-arm spinner who was part of Heath Streak's rebel strikers in 2004, is to return to international cricket after being handed a call-up for Zimbabwe's series against the West Indies later this month.

Price returned from England two weeks ago after rejecting a new contract with Worcestershire where he spent four seasons. In 2004, he was one of 15 players who went on strike to oppose Zimbabwe Cricket's (ZC) regime. But despite his apparent wish to one day play for England - he is three years into a four-year qualifying period - Price is rejoining the country of his birth.

He has taken 69 wickets in 18 Tests at 35.86, but he was most productive in the 2003-04 season, taking 33 wickets at 22.42 from five Tests.

He is understood to have been given a contract by ZC after consulting Streak, Trevor Gripper and other former team-mates.