Team India look to win Florida T20I to kickstart Windies tour after disappointing 2019 World Cup
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India and The West Indies will today go head to head in first T20I of the three match series of India’s 2019 WI tour as both teams strive for success post CWC 19. Team India go into this game as the favourites.
Date and Time : 3rd August 2019, 8:00 PM IST
Venue : Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground, Lauderhill, Florida
India will hope for this series to be successful for them as they didn’t win ICC CWC 2019. They fell short which will be disappointing but India will bounce back all guns blazing make no mistakes about it.
First of all they need to make a plan for this series to be their’s. In the T20I format India do match The West Indies.
Although West Indies at home should be very tough but we have seen nowadays that they aren’t. An all round performance is what is needed to capitalise this situation.
Indian Batters should look this T20I series as a way to express themselves as India will need high scores against world champions West Indies.
And Bowling will also be a key factor in the series where margins will be low. So a good series to look forward to definitely.
On the other hand, For the Windies they need no introduction especially in this format where they are absolute kings.
The Caribbean team has two world titles to it’s name and even though India will be a tough challenge they are set to enjoy the series.
They have batters who are dynamic and unique in this format in the world with capabilities as high as it could be. All of them are match winners which is a quality of champion sides.
They will look to outplay India and have a fantastic series after their World Cup lows. T20s should be appropriate to start a new journey.
Both teams are tied on their T20I head to head. So even contests.
Team news and possible line-ups
Carlos Brathwaite will captain the Windies against India.
As for team India, Rahul Chahar is available and could make his T20I debut.
West Indies XI : C. Brathwaite (C), Lewis, J. Campbell, Hetmyer, Pooran (WK), Pollard, R. Powell, K. Pierre, S. Narine, Cottrell, O. Thomas.
India XI : V. Kohli (C), R. Sharma, Dhawan, KL Rahul, M. Pandey, Pant (WK), K. Pandya, W. Sundar, D. Chahar, K. Ahmed, N. Saini.
Prediction
It should be an evenly fought contest but chances of rain are their and hence team which chases might have brighter chances but may the best team on the day which commits less mistakes win this game.
