Team India’s tour of the West Indies (India vs West Indies) starts on the third day of next month. In this tour Team India will play three T20s, Three ODIs and two Test matches. Team India’s team has been announced. West Indies have also announced their team for the first two matches of the T20 series. Carlos Brathwaite retained captaincy for this series. Brathwaite was earlier the captain of the T-20 series in the West Indies last October tour also. At the same time, universe boss Chris Gayle has not got a place in the team.
There are many West Indian players in this team that were also involved in the World Cup team. However, for the past few years, the T20 team has been away from the ODI and Test team. In this team, Andre Russell, Nicolas Pooran, Evin Lewis, Shimron Hetmayer, Sheldon Cottrell, Oshane Thomas have been given the place. Jason Holder, Chris Gayle, Darren Bravo, Ashley Nurse, Fabian Allen, Shai Hope, Kemar Roach and Shenon Gabriel have not been included in this team.
Kieron Pollard and Sunil Narine have returned to the team. The effect of the IPL in this selection is clearly visible. Most of the players in the team have been selected to play in the IPL. Only Chris Gayle is not in the team. Gayle only agreed to the West Indies Cricket for the ODI World Cup. In this team captain Carlos Brathwaite, Sunil Narine and Andre Russell play for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL.
The first two matches of the T-20 series will be held on August 3 and 4 at the Florida Central Broward Regional Park Studios, Torf Ground at Florida Loderhill. The final match of the series will be held on August 6 at the Providence Stadium in Guyana, West Indies. After this, the one-day series will be played from August 8. The first match will also be held at the Providence Stadium of Guyana. The next two matches will be played at Trinidad in the Queen’s Park Oval of Port of Spain.
West Indies Team for the first two Twenty20 matches: Carlos Brathwaite (Captain), John Campbell, Evin Lewis, Shimron Hetmayer, Nicolas Pooran, Kieron Pollard, Rovman Powell, Keemo Paul, Sunil Narine, Sheldon Cottrell, Oshane Thomas, Anthony Bramble, Andre Russell, Khary Pierre.
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