“I am very excited”.
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The Central Broward Regional Park has previously hosted four T20Is – in 2010, New Zealand played two matches against Sri Lanka, and returned in 2012 for two games against West Indies.
“This is the first time that I’ll be working with MS”.
On asked whether the Indian team would receive more support than the Windies, a confident Dhoni responded, “I think so”.
Brathwaite’s outfit includes the likes of flamboyant opener Chris Gayle, allrounder Andre Russell and spinner Sunil Narine. “It is an early morning start here but it won’t make much of a difference”, said the skipper. “Once he starts, with either bat or ball, we are in a position of winning”, said Simmons.
“I haven’t seen the surface properly yet, but Narine played here for Trinidad and Tobago in the CPL and he has done well and adapted well”. He heard it before I spoke to him, and he just said, “Congratulations, it’s a big challenge”.
Seems that way! According to the latest ICC rankings, the West Indies Women Cricket Team is now ranking higher than the Men’s Cricket team in points. It gives you ample time. They have two or three. The smaller the format, the more success the power hitters get. We know US.the expats and the huge Indian diaspora who are wanting for quality cricket to come to the US.
As far as the West Indies team is concerned, the focus will be on Carlos Brathwaite, who was elevated to captaincy in place of Darren Sammy. The same applies for the bowlers as the margin for error will be minimum for R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Co., with the opposition batsmen looking to attack from the word go.
India and the West Indies will face not only a change of format as their summer cricket contests continue this weekend, but a change of region. Even if it doesn’t, if we win the games that will be the most important thing.
After a gap of 2 months, MS Dhoni is back with the Indian team for the 2-match T20 series against West Indies at Florida, and the skipper believes that the World T20 champs are an extraordinary team in limited-overs cricket.
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His first job will be to introduce stability into the engaging but often frustrating nature of West Indies’ short-form cricket – before they won their second World T20 in four years, they lost to Afghanistan in the qualifying round. That was the World T20, a do-or-die semi-final in front of home crowds at a venue where they had lifted the World Cup five years ago. “The number one tag was in the minds of all the players and it motivated us a lot”, Misbah wrote on Cricket Australia’s (CA) website. The Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill, close to 50kms north of Miami, is the only ICC certified ODI standard stadium facility in the U.S. and hosted six Caribbean Premier League matches last month.
