Off to a perfect start by winning the lone Twenty20 game of the tour, a second-string India will have to shift gears quickly and now brace up for an ODI battle against the depleted West Indies in a five-match series starting, in Port of Spain on Monday.
India
Led by Suresh Raina, the Indians have made a confident start to the tour by easing past the hosts by 16 runs in the lone Twenty20 match. Raina, who claims to have learnt a lot about captaincy from Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid and Dhoni, marshalled the young side well and they hardly showed any worry while outplaying the Caribbean
India has rather unproven openers in Parthiv Patel and Shikhar Dhawan, who failed to click in T20 game. Led by Munaf Patel, Indian pace bowling is not the strongest but the spinners spearheaded by Harbhajan Singh would be probable to do well on a track on which the ball turns quite a bit.
West Indies
Gayle's absence takes the zing out of West Indies' already weak batting line-up and the Indians couldn't have asked for more."West Indies have players like Gayle missing," Raina has already pointed that out. But facing a exhausted West Indies also means the added pressure of not just winning but winning big and Raina is well aware of it.
West Indies have a reasonable batting line-up on paper with Darren Bravo being the pick of the lot but it hasn't quite translated into enough runs on the board in current times. All rounder Kieron Pollard, who wasn't included in the Twenty20 side having not played in the most recent Caribbean Twenty20 contest, is back in the side for the first two ODI’s.
India
Led by Suresh Raina, the Indians have made a confident start to the tour by easing past the hosts by 16 runs in the lone Twenty20 match. Raina, who claims to have learnt a lot about captaincy from Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid and Dhoni, marshalled the young side well and they hardly showed any worry while outplaying the Caribbean
India has rather unproven openers in Parthiv Patel and Shikhar Dhawan, who failed to click in T20 game. Led by Munaf Patel, Indian pace bowling is not the strongest but the spinners spearheaded by Harbhajan Singh would be probable to do well on a track on which the ball turns quite a bit.
West Indies
Gayle's absence takes the zing out of West Indies' already weak batting line-up and the Indians couldn't have asked for more."West Indies have players like Gayle missing," Raina has already pointed that out. But facing a exhausted West Indies also means the added pressure of not just winning but winning big and Raina is well aware of it.
West Indies have a reasonable batting line-up on paper with Darren Bravo being the pick of the lot but it hasn't quite translated into enough runs on the board in current times. All rounder Kieron Pollard, who wasn't included in the Twenty20 side having not played in the most recent Caribbean Twenty20 contest, is back in the side for the first two ODI’s.
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