Friday, June 3, 2011

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


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.

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