The T20 match against West Indies will be the first worldwide match played by India in the US.
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni will return to lead the side at the Central Broward Regional Park, the only ICC certified ODI standard stadium facility in the USA.
The matches signal the end of the Darren Sammy era following his controversial sacking from the West Indies team after leading the side to two World Cup titles.
“I would say in limited overs format, the West Indies are extraordinary”, Dhoni said. He opined that Brathwaite can be a huge threat to the Indian team.
Head coaches of the West Indies and India, Phil Simmons and Anil Kumble, pictured here during the final test in Trinidad, will lead their sides into T20 action in Florida.
“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.
Misbah reminisces his deputy Azhar Ali dancing down the wicket and smoking Moeen Ali into the stands, completing Pakistan’s 10-wicket win over England at The Oval and in the process leveling the four-match Test series.
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. With the number of big-hitters in the two teams, that could easily go beyond 200 and may well be chased down as well in the course of these two matches. Most of the big names will make a comeback to the T20 team after they were rested for the Zimbabwe series in June.
The first T20I match between India and West Indies will take place at Lauderhill on August 27, 2016, ie., today.
“I certainly didn’t expect the facilities to be as good as what it is in the United States”, Kumble said. He will play five ODIs against New Zealand later this year after the T20I series. It is a hard job for the management to choose between Andre Fletcher and Johnson Charles to pair up Gayle, as both the batsmen had a fine outing in the Caribbean Premier League. The first global cricket match on American soil is set to draw plenty of spectators as leading cricketers will take the field. India have the squad to defeat any team in the world, and with players like Virat Kohli, Dhoni, Rohit Sharma, they have a brilliant batting order.
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Thus, they had photoshopped few images of Misbah ul Haq and Virat Kohli to showcase the top rank of Pakistan Cricket Team in Tests. Now, I will know him as a coach. “The most important thing is what happens when we cross that line”.
