But, if rustiness and lack of experience in their ranks are potential hurdles for West Indies, South Africa will need to be wary about fatigue kicking in.
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First it was Sunil Narine, and then Kieron Pollard.
Over the next month, the sides will play each other three times in the Caribbean, with the top two sides going through to the final at the Kensington Oval on June 26. His recent selection has been marred with a lot of criticism some of the West Indies players taking a amusing dig at him. There was no stopping for Pollard after that and he teared the Proteas bowling apart.
Significantly, the right-hander put on a crucial 74 for the fifth wicket with Bravo which resuscitated the run chase and turned the tide back towards West Indies.
Zampa impressed at the tournament in India, before turning more heads for Rising Pune Supergiants in the Indian Premier League, where he picked up astonishing figures of 6/19 in one match.
There is no place in the squad for Chris Gayle, Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo and Darren Sammy, all key members of the World T20 title-winning side but who have apparently been ignored for failing to represent their respective territories at the start of the year, when they were all involved in the Big Bash in Australia. The council have gone for a mix of young and experienced side and are expecting Holder and co.to succeed at home.
He returned during the IPL, with the ODI series to be his first games for West Indies since November, 2015. Nevertheless, this comes as a great opportunity for the team brimming in confidence.
[It] showed in [South Africa’s] innings too, [AB] de Villiers guiding [Rilee] Rossouw.
“I’m quite pleased with my performance but there is still a lot of improvement to be done”, he said.
Quintock de Kock will assume duties behind the stumps apart from opening the batting alongside the prolific Hashim Amla, who scored 92 in the tourists lone warm-up fixture in Port of Spain five days earlier. It will also be interesting to see how left-arm chinaman bowler Tabraiz Shamsi copes after impressing in the recently concluded IPL 2016.
“David is in exceptional form”. Chinaman Tabraiz Shamsi has been an economical bowler in List A matches and gets a go in the series, despite the fact that Tahir and Aaron Phangiso are favourites to be in the final 11.
The West Indies are taking on two of the world’s best cricket teams in a Tri-Nation series, and one of their famous, or infamous, cricketers, probably in a state of anger at his non-inclusion, has described the selection of the Windies team as “magic”.
After all, the West Indies won the tournament, they are champions of the world, and the board, especially in recent times, and as hard it is, has a tendency of trying to run between the raindrops without getting wet at certain times.
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The ODI player rankings will now be updated on 20 June, after the seventh match in the tri-series.
