A tri-nation series will be executed in West Indies among Australia, South Africa and host West Indies which is scheduled to start from 3rd June, 2016. And the final match will be held in 26th June, 2016. The series consisting of ten (10) One Day International including final. Each team will have to play six matches against others and the top two winners will qualify for final. Total three venues are selected for this series which are placed in West Indies and final match of this tournament will be executed at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. Let’s take a look below where the short details of this tri nation series are given.
# Match Details:
- First Match: West Indies Vs New Zealand
- Match Type: ODI
- Date: 20 December, 2017
- Time: 03:30 (IST)
- Day: Wednesday
- Ground: Providence Stadium, Georgetown, Guyana
- Address: Providence, Guyana
- Capacity: 15,000
- Series: One Day International (ODI)
- Series End: 26th June, 2016
- Total Matches: Ten (10)
Two times ICC World Cup winner West Indies is a multinational cricket team which represents West Indies Cricket Board. West Indies was one of the most strongest cricket team from 1970 to 1990. In the year of 1975 and 1979, they won World Cup, in 2004 they won ICC Champions Trophy and also they have won two times ICC World T20 in 2012 and 2016. Though, their ODI and Test current performance are not good enough where they are standing in 8th position in Test and 9th position in ODI according to ICC ranking which has announced in 3rd March, 2016. But their T20 statistics is quite extraordinary. They are in 2nd position in World T20.
The complete players squad of West Indies Cricket Team is given below.
S/N | Player | Age (Year) | Playing Role & Style | Remarks |
1. | Jason Holder | 24 | Right handed & Right arm medium | Captain |
2. | Jomel Warrican | 23 | Slow left arm orthodox | |
3. | Andre Russell | 28 | Right handed & Right arm medium | |
4. | Sulieman Benn | 34 | Slow left arm orthodox | |
5. | Johnson Charles | 27 | Right handed batsman | WK |
6. | Chris Gayle | 36 | Left handed batsman | |
7. | Devendra Bishoo | 30 | Right arm leg break | |
8. | Darren Sammy | 32 | Right handed & Right arm medium | |
9. | Miguel Cummins | 25 | Right arm fast | |
10. | Ashley Nurse | 34 | Right arm off break | |
11. | Shai Hope | 22 | Left handed batsman | WK |
12. | Shannon Gabriel | 28 | Right arm fast medium | |
13. | Samuel Badree | 35 | Right arm leg break | |
14. | Denesh Ramdin | 31 | Right handed batsman | WK |
15. | Sheldon Cottrell | 26 | Left arm fast | |
16. | Kraigg Brathwaite | 23 | Right handed batsman | |
17. | Jermaine Blackwood | 24 | Right handed batsman | |
18. | Kemar Roach | 27 | Right arm fast | |
19. | Andre Fletcher | 28 | Right handed batsman | WK |
20. | Leon Johnson | 28 | Left handed batsman | |
21. | Jerome Taylor | 31 | Right arm fast | |
22. | Rajendra Chandrika | 26 | Right handed batsman | |
23. | Carlos Brathwaite | 27 | Right handed & Right arm medium | |
24. | Marlon Samuels | 35 | Right handed batsman | |
25. | Evin Lewis | 24 | Left handed batsman | |
26. | Lendl Simmons | 31 | Right handed batsman | |
27. | Darren Bravo | 27 | Left handed batsman |
West Indies is commonly called Windies had some legendary players who were the best in the world like Brian Lara who still holds the records of highest scores in Test Cricket with his 400 runs and not out. Besides, they had Sir Garfield Sobers, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Sir Viv Richards, Sir Curtly Ambrose and so on.
# Management & Coaching Staff:
- Head Coach – Phil Simmons
- Assistant Coach – Andre Coley, Stuart Williams
- Team Manager – Rawl Lewis
- Bowling Coach – Curtly Ambrose
- Test & ODI Captain – Jason Holder
- T20 Skipper – Darren Sammy
- Test Ranking: 8th
- ODI Ranking: 9th
- T20I Ranking: 2nd
Hopefully, team Windies will regain their previous honour and will be once again the strongest cricket team in the world.