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India are gearing up for a house World Cup, fine-tuning their mixture with simply over two months to go for the massive occasion. West Indies will play no half in it.
While ODIs would be the most keenly adopted format of worldwide cricket over the approaching weeks, West Indies might marvel what precisely they’re making an attempt to attain once they play their 50-overs cricket. They’ll wish to choose themselves up, after all, after the shocks they suffered on the Qualifier in Zimbabwe, however choose themselves as much as do what?
With no World Cup to arrange for, there isn’t any wider context to ODI cricket for West Indies for now. There are not any World Cup Super League factors to win, and there isn’t any risk simply but that they’re going to fail to make the 2027 World Cup, which can function 14 groups who will qualify primarily based on their ODI rankings.
West Indies’ followers, nevertheless, would do properly to not mistake the dearth of a wider context for an absence of goal. While it could be straightforward to have a look at the staff’s failure to qualify for the World Cup as an indication of their unstoppable decline as a cricketing drive, the fact is not fairly so abject. The high Associate groups have made white-ball cricket extra aggressive now than it ever has been, and the hole between the world’s ninth-best and Thirteenth-best ODI groups has by no means been narrower. It simply so occurs that the game is rising when its World Cup has shrunk.
West Indies will do properly, then, to place the Qualifier behind them, put the World Cup out of their minds, and cease worrying about historical past. Shai Hope and Brandon King should not need to really feel worse about lacking out on the World Cup than Brandon McMullen or Harry Tector do simply because they occur to play for a staff that when featured Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards.
The way forward for West Indies cricket is just too twisted up within the sport’s economics and geopolitics for one set of gamers to have any actual affect on it. What they will do on this collection, nevertheless, is keep within the current, take note of the subsequent ball, after which the one after it, and let their opponents fear about issues like World Cups.
Form information
West Indies LWLTL (final 5 accomplished ODIs, most up-to-date first)
India LLWWW
In the highlight
Team news
West Indies: 1 Brandon King, 2 Kyle Mayers, 3 Keacy Carty, 4 Shai Hope (capt & wk), 5 Shimron Hetmyer, 6 Rovman Powell, 7 Romario Shepherd, 8 Kevin Sinclair, 9 Alzarri Joseph, 10 Gudakesh Motie/Yannic Cariah/Oshane Thomas, 11 Jayden Seales
India have recently adopted an ODI mixture that options three allrounders: Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and both Axar Patel or Shardul Thakur relying on whether or not they wish to play an additional spinner or seamer. They’ll seemingly have that option to make in Bridgetown, in addition to two others, with Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson competing for the wicketkeeper’s spot and a attainable three-way battle for the third seamer’s position.
India: 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Hardik Pandya, 6 Sanju Samson/Ishan Kishan, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Axar Patel/Shardul Thakur, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Umran Malik/Jaydev Unadkat/Mukesh Kumar
Pitch and situations
That collection, nevertheless, featured day-night video games. All three ODIs on this collection shall be day video games, with Indian TV audiences in thoughts. The climate may have an effect on the primary ODI, with a 20% probability of rain on Thursday. The forecast for the second ODI on Saturday, nevertheless, is grimmer, with a 50% probability of rain.
Stats and trivia
- India have gained their final eight ODIs in opposition to West Indies. Their final defeat got here in Chennai again in December 2019.
- Mohammed Siraj (20.72) has the greatest common of any India bowler to have taken no less than 40 ODI wickets.
- Hope is 171 runs away from turning into the eleventh West Indies batter to the 5000 mark in ODIs. Rovman Powell (975) and Brandon King (969), in the meantime, are nearing the 1000 mark.
- Jadeja wants 9 wickets to change into the seventh India bowler to succeed in the 200 mark in ODIs. If he will get there, he’ll change into the primary India participant since Kapil Dev (3783 runs and 253 wickets) to finish the 2000 runs and 200 wickets double in ODIs.
Karthik Krishnaswamy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo
Source web site: www.espncricinfo.com
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