Kingston: West Indies batsman Dwayne Smith will lead the West Indies A team against Sri Lanka A in two Twenty20 matches this week at Arnos Vale.
Smith, a prolific scorer in the just ended Indian Premier League (IPL), is one of four members of the West Indies World T20 champion team named in the regional A team for the series, reports CMC.
The others are Lendl Simmons, allrounder Andre Russell, and leg-spinner Samuel Badree who were part of the squad which beat Sri Lanka to win the ICC World T20 Trophy at the R Premadasa Stadium last October. The quartet will form the main part of the Windies A team when the matches are played on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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New Delhi: The BCCI selection committee on Monday put faith in the 15 players currently in England for the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, naming an unchanged squad for the tri-series to be played in the West Indies from June 28. India have qualified for the Champions Trophy semi-finals after being South Africa, West Indies and Pakistan respectively. Their campaign has been highlighted by excellent fielding and strong performances from the...
03:09 PM, Jun 17, 2013
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08:32 AM, Jun 15, 2013
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08:24 AM, Jun 15, 2013
Cardiff: South Africa advanced into the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy on superior net run-rate after their rain-marred match against the West Indies in Cardiff on Friday ended in a tie. The West Indies, who had to win this match to go through to the last four, were exactly level on the Duckworth/Lewis system for rain-affected matches at 190 for 6 off 26.1 overs when Australian umpires Rod Tucker and...
12:37 AM, Jun 15, 2013
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02:12 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Cape Town: South Africa pace bowler Dale Steyn has been passed fit for Friday's winner-takes-all Champions Trophy Group B clash against West Indies in Cardiff. A side strain kept Steyn out of South Africa's opening two matches of the tournament, but he bowled at full intensity in the nets on Thursday, a statement from Cricket South Africa said. The winner of Friday's match will join India in the semi-finals of...
08:40 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Cardiff: West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo hopes that South Africa's habit of 'choking' at major tournaments will work in his side's favour when they meet in a winner-takes-all Champions Trophy clash on Friday. Whichever team comes out on top in Cardiff will join already qualified India as one of the two semifinalists out of Group B in a competition featuring the world's top eight one-day nations. Despite having had several...
11:49 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Cardiff: With the semifinal slot up for grabs, South Africa and West Indies would be locked in what would be a virtual quarter-final when they take on each other in their last Group B match of the ICC Champions Trophy here on Friday. South Africa lost their opening game to India before getting the better of Pakistan, results which are similar to what the West Indies have managed so far...
01:29 PM, Jun 13, 2013
London: West Indies skipper Dwayne Bravo lamented his team's batting performance after India thrashed them by eight wickets in a Group B ICC Champions Trophy match at The Oval here on Tuesday. "Our batsmen have to take the blame for this," Bravo said. "Another 25 runs could have made a difference if the tail batted smarter," Bravo said, adding:"Most of us played bad shots at the wrong time and I...
08:13 AM, Jun 12, 2013
London: India's newest 'Man Friday' Ravindra Jadeja feels that secret of his success lies in "keeping things simple" which helped him get a career-best of five for 36 against West Indies in a group league of Champions Trophy on Tuesday. "This is my best bowling performance and I am very happy about it. I have had three four-wicket hauls, but this one is special. I just tried to keep things...
08:07 AM, Jun 12, 2013
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07:11 PM, Jun 11, 2013
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10:19 AM, Jun 11, 2013
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10:28 PM, Jun 10, 2013
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08:06 PM, Jun 10, 2013
London: The day-to-day happenings in the BCCI since the IPL spot-fixing scandal broke out has not bothered the Indian team, according to captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni who said that his his players were only focussed on the ongoing Champions Trophy. "As players, we can only control the things we are able to," Dhoni told mediapersons ahead of his team's second group league encounter against the West Indies at the Oval...
07:25 PM, Jun 10, 2013
London: Virat Kohli will on Tuesday step out onto the field at The Oval in his 100th one-day international (ODI) appearance when India play West Indies in the ICC Champions Trophy. This will mark the 30th instance of an Indian cricketer reaching the landmark. Kohli, 24, has played 99 ODIs from which he has scored 4085 runs at an average of 49.21 inclusive of 13 centuries and 22 half-centuries. In...
05:37 PM, Jun 10, 2013
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04:44 PM, Jun 10, 2013
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03:54 PM, Jun 10, 2013
London: West Indies have the bowlers to counter India's batting line-up when the two teams meet at The Oval seeking to outdo the other in a race to the ICC Champions Trophy semi-finals, according to their captain Darren Bravo. Both teams pocketed two points after winning their tournament openers respectively, and now go head-to-head on Tuesday. Reflecting on his team's two-wicket defeat of Pakistan at The Oval on Friday and...
02:44 PM, Jun 10, 2013
