*Official* India in West indies 2023

[Socerer 01]

WI have no chance of beating India. If I were India I'd send a bunch of debutants with a few veterans mixed in just in case. But the WI batting is the worst I've seen in my entire life. The bowling may hold its own though but they won't have near enough runs to work with.

 

[Slifer]

 

[Nintendo]

WI have no chance of beating India. If I were India I'd send a bunch of debutants with a few veterans mixed in just in case. But the WI batting is the worst I've seen in my entire life. The bowling may hold its own though but they won't have near enough runs to work with.

The current west indies batting unit isn't THAT bad, honestly, particularly at home. Braithwaite is one of the best openers in the world rn, chanderpaul is their best opener bar braithwaite since the universe boss retired, bonner is pretty useful in these conditions, his technique just isn't setup for places like AUS where the ball bounces more. Blackwood is fine at 4, De Silva is a gun keeper bat at 6 and is in red hot form atm for the A-team, mayers is solid at 7, holder is one of the best #8's in world cricket and guys like joseph and motie are far better than your standard #9's/10's.

If india start taking the piss vs the windies their in for a rude awakening.

 

[CartyDurham]

I like watching series from the West Indies as there are in a nice timezone for the uk

sadly this series is on BT Sports which is changing to TNT Sports shortly and that’s a pay per view channel which I don’t have access to

hope it’s a great series though, I think India would be favourites to win it

 

[trundler]

Braithwaite is one of the best openers in the world rn

Nah he's become test standard after ages and was actually good last year but he's still about average. Also, Bonner is rank bad against anything pitched short. Won't last on pitches which suit West Indian bowling. Holder's batting hasn't been of much use for like 3 years.

 

[Socerer 01]

Nah he's become test standard after ages and was actually good last year but he's still about average. Also, Bonner is rank bad against anything pitched short. Won't last on pitches which suit West Indian bowling. Holder's batting hasn't been of much use for like 3 years.

didn’t Bonner get dropped because his last calendar year was absolutely horrendous, they played Reifer in his position the last I remember

 

[Beamer]

didn’t Bonner get dropped because his last calendar year was absolutely horrendous, they played Reifer in his position the last I remember

Bonner got dropped because he got hit by a couple of short balls and retired hurt. Tbf he did look all at sea against Nortje and Cummins. But he averages 38 in tests which makes him almost Bradmanesque by our standards . Tbh I think Haynes was desperate to get Reifer in and pounced on the opportunity.

Our batting in tests is still pretty ropey and I would love to see some new blood to improve it, particularly Athanaze and King. But I have little faith in our selectors to do that so we will probably see Reifer and Chase at 3 and 5.

 

[WICFan]

Despite some test incumbents being in Zimbabwe the West Indies have named the following players to be part of a training camp for the tests series against India:-

Kraigg Brathwaite, Alick Athanaze, Jermaine Blackwood, Nkrumah Bonner, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Rahkeem Cornwall, Joshua Da Silva, Shannon Gabriel, Kavem Hodge, Akeem Jordan, Jair McAllister, Kirk McKenzie, Marquino Mindley, Anderson Phillip, Raymon Reifer, Kemar Roach, Jayden Seales, Jomel Warrican.

 

[Saket1209]

Despite some test incumbents being in Zimbabwe the West Indies have named the following players to be part of a teaining camo for the tests series against India:-

Kraigg Brathwaite, Alick Athanaze, Jermaine Blackwood, Nkrumah Bonner, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Rahkeem Cornwall, Joshua Da Silva, Shannon Gabriel, Kavem Hodge, Akeem Jordan, Jair McAllister, Kirk McKenzie, Marquino Mindley, Anderson Phillip, Raymon Reifer, Kemar Roach, Jayden Seales, Jomel Warrican.

I think it's a good. The player doesn't have the match exposure so training might help them. Good to see some Young names like Kirk and Jiar. Jayden seales is a very good positive for the west Indies and with Alzari ,Roach and Holder can make a really good bowling attack. But India will still beat them 2-0 due to their batting.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Okay, Lara joins the test team...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1675855512112361474

 

[honestbharani]

1st Cycle Pure Agarbathi sounds just so wrong.. lol

 

[Saket1209]

1st Cycle Pure Agarbathi sounds just so wrong.. lol

Indian sponsors.

 

[kevinw]

Nah he's become test standard after ages and was actually good last year but he's still about average. Also, Bonner is rank bad against anything pitched short. Won't last on pitches which suit West Indian bowling. Holder's batting hasn't been of much use for like 3 years.

Brathwaite is a decent opener in an era of few genuinely very good openers, but he's probably at (or just below) Elgar, Latham or Karunaratne level. Then you have Warner, Khawaja and Sharma way above them.

 

[Saket1209]

Brathwaite is a decent opener in an era of few genuinely very good openers, but he's probably at (or just below) Elgar, Latham or Karunaratne level. Then you have Warner, Khawaja and Sharma way above them.

Plus he play most of his test in West Indies where it is definitely not easy to open.

 

[ankitj]

India have lacked a left arm fast medium bowler in the last 10 years since Zaheer retired

Arshdeep is a good prospect IMO.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

India have announced their T20I squad,


India T20I squad: Ishan Kishan (wk), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (vice-capt), Sanju Samson (wk), Hardik Pandya (capt), Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Umran Malik, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar.

Some expected Rinku Singh to be in here...but good to see Tilak Verma and Mukesh Kumar.

 

[honestbharani]

Too many bowlers and very few batsmen and allrounders.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

India have announced their T20I squad,


India T20I squad: Ishan Kishan (wk), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (vice-capt), Sanju Samson (wk), Hardik Pandya (capt), Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Umran Malik, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar.

Some expected Rinku Singh to be in here...but good to see Tilak Verma and Mukesh Kumar.

Light on all round options

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Name-test-innings-run-best-Ave-100-50

Rahane 6 -8-514-108-102.80-
2/3
Ashwin 4-4-235-118-58.75-
2/0
Kohli 9-13-463--200-35.61-
1/2
Rohit 2-2-50-41-25.00-
0/0
Jadeja-3-5-97-58-24.25
0/1

 

[WICFan]

West Indies squad:
Kraigg Brathwaite (Capt), Jermaine Blackwood (Vice-Capt), Alick Athanaze, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Rahkeem Cornwall, Joshua Da Silva, Shannon Gabriel, Jason Holder, Alzarri Joseph, Kirk McKenzie, Raymon Reifer, Kemar Roach, Jomel Warrican.
Reserves - Tevin Imlach and Akeem Jordan.

Gudakesh Motie and Jayden Seales are both still rehabbing from injuries, Kyle Mayers is also getting some rest and recuperation from an injury.