First T-20 India vs West Indies - Match Preview

India meeting West Indies for the first T-20 match today at 7:30 pm.  At the ground of Trinidad, India’s tour to West Indies will start. This match is the first match for Duncan Fletcher as the coach of Indian Cricket Team and Suresh Raina will be the captain of Indian Cricket Team.

Indian Team is quite young and inexperienced. Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh are out for the whole tour and Mahender Singh Dhoni and Zaheer Khan are dropped of One Day Team.

Suresh Raina hasn’t been successful as a captain but now he has a big challenge in front of him and he can prove himself. It’s a difficult challenge for him to play with a young and inexperienced team. The bowling squad is strong with Harbhajan Singh leading the bowling order and in form Munaf Patel and Parveen Kumar will be playing most definitely. R. Ashwin is given a chance dropping Piyush Chawla.

West Indies Team lead by Darren Sammy has been same as they beat Pakistan Cricket Team last month just making a single change with giving Kemar Roach rest. West Indies is not having Chris Gayle.

India yet hasn’t beaten West Indies in any T-20 match. This is the 200^th T-20 match. Co-incidentally India and West Indies even played 200^th ODI and India won the match.

On the whole both the Teams look same in cards and it will be interesting to see the playing eleven and the result of this T-20 match.

Suresh Raina (c)               Harbhajan Singh (vc)

Ravichandran Ashwin       Subramaniam Badrinath

Shikhar Dhawan               Virat Kohli

Praveen Kumar                 Amit Mishra

Munaf Patel                      Parthiv Patel (wk)

Yusuf Pathan                    Wriddhiman Saha (wk)

Ishant Sharma                   Rohit Sharma
Manoj Tiwary                   Vinay Kumar

Darren Sammy (c)           Christopher Barnwell
Devendra Bishoo             Darren Bravo
Andre Fletcher (wk)        Danza Hyatt
Ashley Nurse                   Ravi Rampaul
Andre Russell                  Marlon Samuels
Krishmar Santokie           Lendl Simmons