India in the West Indies

[Karthik]

The tour against West Indies begins on the 16th of May 2006 with a practise match followed by the first of the One Day Internationals on the 18th of May 2006.

Here goes the schedule:

Practise Match (16th May) - Jamaica
1st ODI (18th May) - Jamaica
2nd ODI (20th May) - Jamaica
3rd ODI (23th May) - St. Kitts
4th ODI (26th May) - Trinidad
5th ODI (28th May) - Trinidad

Practise Mach (30th May) - Antigua
1st Test (2nd June) - Antigua
2nd Test (10th June) - St. Lucia
3rd Test (22nd June) - St. Kitts
4th Test (30th June) - Jamaica

Let's use this thread to analyse the team's performance and the individual's performances as well.

[Karthik]

The Indian Team left for the West Indies a couple of days ago.Rahul Dravid said that they wouldn't under-estimate the Windies' lack of form.Greg Chappel hopes to transform this brilliant One Day International form to test cricket as well.

[Wanderer]

I thought the tests were going to be played first, but it seems like they're getting the ODI's out of the way first?

Will be watching Dhoni's performance in the ODI's. He's only 3 points behind Gilchrist and a couple of good performances against the Windies will see him back at the No1 spot again.

A clean sweep of the ODI's mean that India move ever closer to SA in the ODI table. India's currently third, 3 points behind SA, after winning 18 of their last 24 matches. A 5-0 victory will move them up to 118 points, just one behind the Proteas.

Brian Lara, interestingly, will be playing in his first ODI since May last year...

[Vrock]

Originally Posted by Wanderer

I thought the tests were going to be played first, but it seems like they're getting the ODI's out of the way first?

It looks like the West Indies want to get all of their ODI's out of the way first, the best option IMO.

Originally Posted by Wanderer

A 5-0 victory will move them up to 118 points, just one behind the Proteas.

A 5-0 victory is likely, a good chance for India to move up the table and show their dominance in the ODI scene.

Originally Posted by Wanderer

Brian Lara, interestingly, will be playing in his first ODI since May last year...

He played against Zimbabwe two days ago. http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2...14MAY2006.html

[Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Vrock

He played against Zimbabwe last week.

Sorry, I reckon I meant the first real competitive ODI. No insult meant to the Zimbabean side, but....

[Vrock]

Originally Posted by Wanderer

Sorry, I reckon I meant the first real competitive ODI. No insult meant to the Zimbabean side, but....

IMO, if the West Indies didn't think it was competetive they would have fielded a second string XI, but that series is over now. No need to ponder as to why X did Y.

[Wanderer]

South Africa also fielded their best side when they played the Zimbabweans last year. Match practice is about the only positive one can take from a 1-sided match like that...

[Karthik]

India didn't play their best.They probably won due to plenty of dropped catches.

[Vrock]

Dravid and Maif put together a major partnership, this was the key to the victory. Before this three wickets had fallen at close intervals and Dravid played a superb knock. Mixing aggression with stroke play to dominate the West Indian bowling attack.

Dhoni gave the quick fire runs to really put India in the driving seat late on with an 11 ball 18, doesn't sound like much but India were hovering around at just above a run a ball.

[Karthik]

10 runs to win from the last over.2 fours after that.I guess he was just a bit too excited.The look on his face told you that he was extremely dissapointed.