This is first time India are playing there and added to honour will be the weight of history.
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Even though India won the Test series 2-0, players from the Test squad are coming with hardly any recent match practice because of the rain-affected fourth Test in Port-of-Spain where the last four days didn’t see any play.
“When you have a break, it’s easy to maintain fitness because there’s enough preparation time”, Dhoni said in Lauderhill ahead of the first Twenty20 against West Indies on Saturday.
The main aim of this short series is to promote cricket in the region and which better teams than World Champions West Indies and India to do so.
India and West Indies are teams packed with some major stars, and when these two sides feature in the highly-entertaining T20 format, it is going to be a brilliant contest. Other seven were Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Floyd Reifer, Dinesh Ramdin, Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle and Darren Sammy.
But despite his heroics in Mumbai, the 28-year-old Brathwaite is yet to become a force to reckon with when it comes to worldwide experience, having played just three Tests, 14 ODIs and eight Twenty 20s. Yes, the Test series victory was very good in West Indies.
With the test series being very one-sided in favour of the men in blue, the West Indian cricketers will surely look to dominate the upcoming two-match series in Florida and pull back some of the glory which Indian claimed by winning the test series.
There is a lot riding on the matches as Indian Premier League franchises and the Indian cricket board will be keeping a close eye.
With Pollard joining the likes of hard hitting Gayle, Charles, Braithwaite and Russel, the West Indies look a flawless T20 batting lineup with Simmons, Fletcher and Samuels capable playing the anchoring role in Cricket’s shortest format. This announcement immediately sparked the imagination of cricket fans around the world as the two T20 heavyweights were set to face off in unfamiliar territory for the first time.
“Also, how clear he was in his thinking and gameplan”. The most important thing is that Dhoni and Bumrah are going to join the T20 Squad at USA.
Carlos Brathwaite has been appointed as the new skipper of the T20 side with Sammy out of the reckoning. But experience-wise he is not a force to reckon with having just played three Tests, 14 ODIs and eight T20s.
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Australia will also host two day-night Tests against South Africa and then Pakistan during their home season, starting in November.
