India - West Indies Series

India v West Indies, 1st ODI Preview

India and West Indies will meet in the first ODI of the four match series at Jamaica on Friday. Both the teams will be looking to go one up on each other after different results in the recently concluded T20 World Cup.

For West Indies, it was a tournament to remember as they reached the semi finals of a major tournament which bodes well for cricket in their region. But what is worrying is that their team is dependent too much on captain Chris Gayle and they would want to change that aspect especially since this is longer than 20 overs. The 50 overs game will bring Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnaraine Chanderpaul into the picture a bit more and these two will be names to watch out for.

India didn’t do too well as per expectations in the T20 World Cup and will be looking to bounce back and end their season on a high. After this there is a two months break before the next assignment and therefore they will be looking to get a good result before returning home. Ashish Nehra and four other players have joined the team so this should lift their spirits as well. But big names Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan will be missing so that means India will be short on experience.

The match starts at 8 pm IST.

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