**Official** India In West Indies

[honestbharani]

I believe this could be the XI for the first match:


Gambhir
Vijay
Rohit
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Nayyar
Pathan
Harbhajan
Praveen
RP Singh
Ishant


Ideally I would like to see Ishant rested too.. Maybe a Dhawal Kulkarni could have gone instead.. Or even Sreesanth.


Depending on form and fitness of others, esp. Yuvi, maybe even Badri can come in for a game for him and Jadeja in place of Nayyar...

[sunilreddy]

3-1 West Indies

[Shri]

Are the WI pitches bouncy these days or are they slow pitches with unpredictable bounce?

[Xuhaib]

India 3-1

[shivfan]

Originally Posted by metallics2006

Are the WI pitches bouncy these days or are they slow pitches with unpredictable bounce?

Well, India are only playing on two pitches - Sabina Park in Kingston, and Beausejour in St Lucia....

Sabina is not easy to bat on, and can offer assistance to both bowlers and batsmen. However, on the first day (the first match), it will probably be good for batting. The second match should offer more for the bowlers.

Beausejour should be better for more fluent strokeplay.

[Shri]

Originally Posted by shivfan

Well, India are only playing on two pitches - Sabina Park in Kingston, and Beausejour in St Lucia....

Sabina is not easy to bat on, and can offer assistance to both bowlers and batsmen. However, on the first day (the first match), it will probably be good for batting. The second match should offer more for the bowlers.

Beausejour should be better for more fluent strokeplay.

Thanks for the info. Got a feeling that Gayle is going to be in mean form when the series starts.

[shivfan]

However, it was a good move by India to travel to Jamaica. I understand they arrived in Jamaica yesterday!

It will take the WI players some time to get re-acclimatised to the Caribbean wickets again, so I'm expecting an interesting series....

[Shri]

Hope Nayar has a trick or two to deal with Bravo - his IPL team mate.

[Beamer]

My Windies XI (plus reserves) for this series:

Kieron Powell
Lendl Simmons
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Shiv Chanderpaul
Dwayne Bravo (VC)
Darren Bravo
Denesh Ramdin (C, WK)
Darren Sammy
Jerome Taylor
Suliemann Benn
Nelon Pascal

Reserves:

Imran Khan
Lionel Baker
David Bernard Jr

Notes:

- Chris Gayle may miss this series to have ankle surgery to make sure he is fit in time for the tour of Australia.
- I wouldn't take any chances with Fidel Edwards either if he is having back spasms. This is a pretty unimportant series and he is too important to risk.
- Nelon Pascal is an interesting pace option against an Indian lineup that looked highly uncomfortable against pace in the 20/20 tournament.
- Imran Khan is a bit of a wildcard but he is a quickish leg spinner who can give the ball a good thump with the bat.
- Kieron Powell is our best alternative to Gayle when it comes to having a power player at the top of the order IMHO.
- It is time we have a proper batsman coming in at 6 instead of a hit and miss candidate like Pollard. Darren Bravo can attack just as well as Pollard but he is also capable of playing to the situation.

[roseboy64]

Could see a few new faces for the West Indies with the Tests against Bangladesh after and the Champions Trophy.

[aussie]

Haa...poor Dhoni, son cant seem to get a break these days.

[ret]

Originally Posted by aussie

Haa...poor Dhoni, son cant seem to get a break these days.

No one has stopped him from putting in a request for break though

[ret]

my 11 for the first game

- Gambhir
- Rohit
- Karthik
- Yuvi
- Badri
- YP
- Dhoni
- Praveen
- RP
- Nehra
- Ojha

[honestbharani]

It is a good team but I don't think they will drop Bhajji ever.


And I think DK is better at 5,6 or 7 than at the top.

[Shri]

My XI for the first game would be:

Gautham Gambhir
Rohit Sharma
Subramaniam Badrinath
Yuvraj Singh
MS Dhoni
Dinesh Karthik
Yusuf Pathan
Harbhajan Singh
Praveen Kumar
Ashish Nehra
Pragyan Ojha