The men in blue, after thrashing the West Indies in a longer version of the Cricket, are now ready to face them in the shorter version of the game.
India vs West Indies Live Score Streaming 1st Match 2016
The India and West Indies will meet each for the first t20 match on August 27, at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground Lauderhill, Florida. This will be the first time when West Indies and India will play the t20 match in Florida.
WHERE TO WATCH
Star Sports Network
TIMING
6:30 PM
India Team Preview
The India will enter the t20 series on the back of winning the test series by 2-0. The India has a tremendous record in the t20 cricket. In last few 10 matches, India just lost two matches and currently they are the No. 2 rank t20 team in the world.
MS Dhoni will lead this team and this will the first time when Dhoni will work with the new coach of India, Anil Kumble. It will be interesting to see, how Dhoni-Kumble partnership will go on.
Meanwhile, the key player for India will be Kohli, who has set the previous world cup t20 on fire and was adjudge the man of the tournament for his superhuman capabilities. Kohli also broke the record in 2016 IPL, where he amazed 900+ runs with four centuries.
The team has likes of Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Lokesh Rahul and all this need to fire if they want India to win against the world class team West Indies.
Meanwhile, Jasprit Bumrah, R. Ashwin, and Vhuvneshwar Kumar will be the key in the bowling department for this team.
MS Dhoni will definitely look to make an impact with both captaincy tactics and with his bat in lower down the order. Also, Jadeja will most probably play the role of the all-rounder for this Indian team.
India has all the guns in their arsenal and they just need to fire together, if India needs to come out victorious from this match.
INDIA SQUAD
Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Lokesh Rahul, Stuart Binny, Amit Mishra.
West Indies Team Preview
The west Indies will enter this match with the new captain in the form of young Carlos Braithwaite. Although, West Indies lost the test match but when it comes to t20 cricket, West Indies They are the world champion and won the recently concluded world cup.
This team got genuine match winners in the form of Chris Gayle, Andre Russel, Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard. All these are the world best t20 this player.
Meanwhile, the bowling unit of West Indies team will depend heavily on the spin wizard of Sunil Narine and Samuel Badree. Also, Bravo and Russel will swing the bowl for this team.
West Indie got everything that they need to win this match. This match is mainly considered to be Gayle vs Kohli. Both are the teammate in RCB and it will be interesting to see, how they will go at their business.
WEST INDIES SQUAD
Johnson Charles, Chris Gayle, Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons, Andre Fletcher(w), Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Carlos Brathwaite(c), Sunil Narine, Samuel Badree, Evin Lewis, Jason Holder.
PREDICTION
Predicting this match is the hell out of a thing, but West Indies have edge over India, so West Indies is expected to win this match. But Kohli factor will definitely come into the play.
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