IND vs WI One-Off T20 Preview at Port of Spain - India v West Indies Only Twenty20 Teams

The only twenty-20 match between India and host West Indies will be played on Saturday, 4th June, 2011 at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad, in a day game and the timing will be 14:00 GMT, 10:00 local, 19:30 IST.

India is playing their first match after lifting World Cup 2 months back but will be without key players like Tendulkar, Sehwag, Gambhir, Zaheer and Yuvraj either rested or injured while Suresh Raina will lead the team. Kohli, Pathan and Rohit Sharma are certain in the playing 11 while Badrinath, Shikhar Dhawan and Manoj Tiwary share the 2 available places for batsmen. Ishant Sharma may get a chance with Praveen Kumar and Munaf Patel.

West Indies will be without their hard hitter Chris Gayle and looking weakened butreturn of Kieron Pollard will boost them. Sammy, Rampaul and Bishoo done well against Pakistan last month.

India Team, Squad for One-Off T20 at Port of Spain:

Suresh Raina (Captain), Virat Kohli, Yusuf Pathan, Manoj Tiwary, Shikhar Dhawan/S Badrinath, Rohit Sharma, Parthiv Patel (wk), Harbhajan Singh, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel.

West Indies Team, Squad for One-Off T20 at Port of Spain:

Lendl Simmons, Andre Fletcher (wk), Darren Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Marlon Samuels, Danza Hyatt, Darren Sammy (capt), Andre Russell, Ashley Nurse, Devendra Bishoo, Ravi Rampaul.

India bowled out on 405, trail by 23 runs - Ind vs Aus 3rd Day Photos

India lost 6 wickets in just 51 runs when they were well placed at 154/4 and looking good in a position to take good lead in the first inning when Tendulkar and Raina put 124 runs for the 5th wicket before Sachin missed another century and out on 98 runs and then India lost their last 5 wickets on 23 runs as Mitchel Johnson got 5 wickets for 64 runs. Suresh Raina hit 86 runs while Dravid contributed 77 runs.

1st test match is well poised and can go either way depend on the 2nd inning performance so join here tomorrow for the 4th day coverage.

Ind vs Aus 1st Test 3rd Day Photos:

Indian Test Team, Squad announced fro 2010 Sri Lanka Tour - Yuraj, Raina, Sreesanth in

Indian selectors announced the 16 member squad for upcoming 3 match test series in Sri Lanka starting from 18th July, 2010. Test specialist Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman are back in team while master blaster Sachin Tendulkar also back after rest.

Out of form Yuvraj Singh has been recalled along with fast bowler Sreesanth nad Ishanth Sharma. Suresh Raina also included for the first time as full time player while Wriddhiman Saha will be reserve wicket keeper. Zaheer Khan will lead the pace attack while Harbhajan Singh, Amit Mishra and Pragyan Ojha will take care of spin department.

Find the list of 16-member Indian Team for 2010 Tour of Sri Lanka.

Indian Test Team/Squad against Sri Lanka:

MS Dhoni (wk & capt)
Virender Sehwag (vice-capt)
Gautam Gambhir
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
VVS Laxman
M Vijay
Yuvraj Singh
Suresh Raina
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan
Ishant Sharma
Sreesanth
Amit Mishra
Pragyan Ojha
Wriddhiman Saha (wk)

Ind vs NZ 1st ODI Result - India won by 53 runs in a rain hit match

India put behind their defeat in T20 series and displayed superb performance and won the first ODI by 53 runs against host New Zealand in a rain shortened match at McLean Park, Napier in a day-night game. India leading the 5 match series by 1-0.

India won the toss and elected to bat first in a delayed match shorten to 38 overs scored 273 runs thanks to Sehwag made 77 off 56 balls with 11 fours and a six, man of the match Dhoni was unbeaten on 84 rund off 89 balls and Raina played a special inning of 66 runs off 39 balls with 5 fours and 4 sixes, yusuf also contributed 10 balls 20 runs.

New Zealand lost their inform batsman Brandon McCullum on duck and they were out of match after rain interruption and got a revised target of 216 in 28 overs. Harbhajan took 3 wickets in 4 balls well supported by Praveen Kumar took 2 wickets.

Match Summary:

India - 273/4 in 38 overs.

New Zealand -162/9 in 28 overs.

Toss - India, who chose to bat first.

Result - India won by 53 runs (D/L method).

Man of The Match -MS Dhoni (India).

Series - India led the 5-match series 1-0.