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West Indies v India, Group F, Bridgetown
West Indies and India battle for survival
The Preview by Sidharth Monga
May 8, 2010
Match Facts
Sunday, May 9, BridgetownStart time 0930 (1330 GMT)
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Players/Officials:
Dwayne Bravo
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West Indies v India at Bridgetown
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The Big Picture
One of these teams brings most of the TV revenue. One of them is bringing in the crowds at the actual venues. Both of them got mauled in their first Super Eights match: India by 49 runs, only to be outdone by West Indies, who fell 57 runs short. One of them will be out by the time they are through with each other. Barring, of course, complex and improbable permutations, which are made more complex and improbable thanks to the huge margins of defeats and consequently poor net run-rates.In terms of commercial value, India have won. The match begins at the unTwenty20 hour of 9.30am to cater to the huge TV audience in India instead of putting the host team in an afternoon match so that it is more convenient for the people to turn up at the Kensington Oval.
This will also be West Indies' first early-morning start in the tournament, and might take some adjusting. Their fast bowlers won't mind, though. Kemar Roach and Jerome Taylor would have liked what they saw when Australia bounced India out. They will need all the help from their fielders, though, who were hopeless against Sri Lanka. Even on bouncy tracks, you don't give Indian batsmen too many chances. Suresh Raina, for example, showed how dangerous he could be when South Africa didn't quite finish him off after having him in all sorts of trouble in their first-round match.
With India's batting and West Indies' fielding getting all the flak, their other disciplines can't get away either. India bowled horribly against Australia, which originally set up the defeat. West Indies were lucky to win against England, and their other two full-innings scores have been 138. One of them against Ireland. There is a whole lot of improvement to be done for both the sides, there is one day to figure it out, and there will be only one live slot available after the match.
Form guide (most recent first)
India LWWWLWest Indies LWWLL
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MS Dhoni doesn't make too many excuses. He knows he is leading a tired side, and he says so. He knows he is leading a side not equipped to attack short-pitched bowling on a quick track. There is not enough time in Twenty20s to wear an attack down by ducking and swaying, and pulling and hooking is not India's strongest suit. And Dhoni says so. He knows those facts can't be changed overnight, and that a way has to be found around them. And when an unconventional route has to be found, Dhoni usually leads the way.While a plethora of chances was being missed against Sri Lanka, Dwayne Bravo ran from long-on to field a ball at midwicket, swooped on it in front of Wavell Hinds who had just refused to accept a sitter, and let the throw rip, keeping the batsmen down to one. His angry face then told a story. He would go on diving crazily, attempting impossible catches, and his effort was not going to be enough. Not when he hasn't been quite himself with both bat and ball. But that Bravo energy is exactly what West Indies need now, that desperation to want to do everything. Something to the order of what Bravo did in these two teams' previous meeting: four wickets and a flamboyant 36-ball 66 with the bat.
Team news
Rohit Sharma, with his lone hand of 79 against Australia, should have assured himself a place. Ravindra Jadeja, on the other hand, went for 38 runs in two overs, missed a catch, and ran himself out by running away from the stumps. Jadeja, when used in the middle overs, has been a valuable left-arm spinner for Dhoni, and it will be interesting to see what effect one horrible day has on his place. India, anyway, played one batsman too many against Australia, so either of the spinning "allrounders", Yusuf Pathan or Jadeja, could be left out to bring in a specialist bowler. The choice of that specialist bowler should be interesting too: by not picking him on a bouncy track, Dhoni has shown a bit of a lack of confidence in R Vinay Kumar, so Piyush Chawla could be in the fray too. Injured Praveen Kumar's replacement Umesh Yadav isn't likely to reach there in time for this game.India (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 M Vijay, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 MS Dhoni (capt, wk), 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 Yusuf Pathan/Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Piyush Chawla/R Vinay Kumar, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 Ashish Nehra.
Even though Jerome Taylor went for 28 in three overs on his comeback, there is no way West Indies are going without two genuine quicks against India. Given Andre Fletcher's struggles behind the stumps, they could give the specialist keeper, Denesh Ramdin, a game. Wavell Hinds is wasted coming in at No. 8 anyway. And whether Fletcher the batsman is worth a place is open to debate.
West Indies (probable) 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Andre Fletcher/Wavell Hinds/Narsingh Deonarine, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6 Kieron Pollard, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Darren Sammy, 9 Sulieman Benn, 10 Jerome Taylor, 11 Kemar Roach.
Pitch and conditions
This is the final day of the Super Eight stage in Barbados before the tournament heads back to St Lucia. There has been good pace, true bounce, and not much sideways movement in the surface. In other words, it has been a pitch that not many will complain about. Another warm day is predicted.
Stats and trivia
- Against Australia, when Harbhajan Singh became the second man in the Indian line-up to reach double figures, they escaped equalling the dubious record of 10 batsmen failing to reach a score of 10 in an innings. India hold the current record, jointly with Bermuda, West Indies and Ireland.
- Yuvraj Singh jointly holds the record for most sixes in Twenty20 internationals, 38. Chris Gayle, at No. 5 on the list, has hit 27.
Quotes
"If somebody bowls 150kph short stuff then you have to be really good at pulling which isn't our natural strength. Most players from India are very good at cutting the ball, but only a few are good pullers against the new ball."
MS Dhoni, India's captain, is not hiding behind excuses
"It is must-win for both teams and it should be a good game. We are still confident we can win the two games and move onto the semi-final."
Chris Gayle, West Indies' captain, has not lost hope
Sidharth Monga is a staff writer at Cricinfo
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Dhoni keeps telling that there are no one to pull or hook in Indian team. He should send a request to the President of India asking her to order the BCCI to send Indian team to play only on dull pitches. What a shame coming from the guy who is deemed to be the most talented and charismatic captain of all times for India. The real guys who can play such stuff - Dravid, Sachin and Sehwag are not around. One more joke was selectors choosing Umesh Yadav looking at the Bridgetown pitch, but not considering the fact that he wont be there in this ground in time and when he is ready to play (the next match), it will be too late as Yadav will have to play at St Lucia's low bounce pitch. And while the selectors choose Vinay Kumar as the original replacement, it makes me red in anger that Dhoni does not have confidence in him.
Posted by cricketcrazy1507 on (May 09 2010, 14:02 PM GMT)Kathik should come in place of Vijay. India needs experience now.
Posted byif pakistan beat aus and england beat newzeland then pakistan will go to semi final.
Posted by SachMo007 on (May 09 2010, 13:50 PM GMT)Does Indian think tank really believe Jadeja/Yusuf are better than Kohli/Uthapa/Dravid? Why not give a chance to Naman Ojha in place of below average Dinesh Karthik? And for the short stuff... why can't everyone develop the special shot Tendulkar has developed that goes over the wicket keeper's head? It's way less riskier & easier to execute. What's the point of having Vinay Kumar in the side if he's not going to bowl on the fast & bouncy pitches? Was he just there in case of injury? That would be extremely passive thinking from Indian camp. And why is destroyer like Dwayne smith sitting out? Why not Pollard at no. 5? I'm in for an exciting contest!! Let cricket win!!
Posted byms . dhoni"s men are strong enough to show their caliber. though we lost against australia it doesn"t mean that indian team is weak. look at the splendid batting of rohit sharma on that day. he is a real gift for india in the middle order. just need to click well with the balls. though we are weak with shorter ones , yuvraj and dhoni can smash them through the fences. just needed some momentum to work harder on the field. fielding first is a good option as the pitch is wet. the slowness in the wicket can make spinners like harbhajan work with the new ball and india should be able to restrict the windies within 165 runs... then india can comfortably chase because the pitch will become dry and get some bounce for pleasing batting... all the best
Posted byThis is Do or Die match for India.The only worry about India is that the Gambir is miss time his short, specially pull short. If today Gambir get going, it will be difficult for WI bowler and fielder to stop runs from his bat. Captain Dhoni is missing one thing in this tournament, his concentration as we see in the last two tournaments. He should come in the front and lead the batting line up of India. Also he is miss using Harbagan singh giving him a new ball.This idea was good in IPL slow pitches but here in WI this is not working.Zaheer should open the ball with Nehra because once the ball get old, Harbaji has good chance to spin.Mean while Dhoni is using him not as strike bowler but only he is using for stopping runs. So i think Harbajan should use after 8 overs, will be better for India to retain WI player
Posted by eminem on (May 09 2010, 13:36 PM GMT)Actually it takes ba11s to accept ones weakness and hats off to Dhoni for that whereas there are some teams down there who think very supirior of themselves and fail to accept weaknesses. Or either they accept it in private but put up a phoney talk in the media that alls' well. come on, do I have to say who?
Posted bywe should not loose our faith in team india.actually it was not our day.i hope still we will win this cup if our batsman anticipet wicket one time you all will see bowlers will cry for mercy.we have most cruel batsman.ok.
Posted by Retour on (May 09 2010, 13:13 PM GMT)We need to play Karthik, who has a good record against WI and in WI too (iirc). Hoping to see Umesh Yadav make a debut. SF berth or not, I hope we play some exciting cricket .... My playing 11 for this game would be: Vijay, Karthik, Gambhir, Raina, Rohit, Dhoni, Yuvi, Bhajji, Vinay, Yadav and Nehra .... For the next game, on the slower surface at St Lucia, may be we can use bits and pieces player like YP (if we have someone in the top 7 struggling). YP spin could be useful at St Lucia, so can be his batting against SL spinners .... Good luck India!
Posted byThis is the last thing India wanted. Rain affected match.