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Pakistan tour of WI 2017
1st T20I, March 31, Port of Spain

2nd T20I, April 2, Port of Spain

1st ODI, April 7, Providence

2nd ODI, April 9, Providence

3rd ODI, April 11, Providence

Tour game, April 15-17, Trelawny

1st Test, April 22-26, Kingston

2nd Test, April 30-May 4, Bridgetown

3rd Test, May 10-14, Roseau

The first of the two additional T20Is will be played on Sunday, March 26 at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados.

The series then moves to the Queen’s Park Oval in the Trinidad & Tobago capital of Port of Spain, where they will now be three T20Is instead of the originally carded two.

The matches will now be contested on Thursday, March 30, a public holiday, and will be followed by matches on Saturday, April 1 and Sunday, April 2.

http://www.windiescricket.com/news/paki ... -two-t20is

mike is there a reason why odi and T20 are normally held in the same island in the west indies.
it is quite annoying to see the same place hold the same games.

Laziness and penny-pinching by the WICB...playing all three ODIs in Guyana makes no sense, and will ensure that hardly any crowds turn up. But it saves the WICB money in terms of flying players to another island.

Ideally, they should be playing a T20 and an ODI in Guyana, and a T20 and an ODI in Trinidad, but that would be too logistically difficult for those in the WICB hierarchy, and would cost them too much money, so screw the spectators....

how many international stadium WI got now.
lately the likes of St lucia are hosting so many game.
Same with Grenada which funny enough my late next door neighbour got a house right next to the stadium.

Thanks to the Chinese, who built many of the stadiums before the 2007 World Cup, there are....

Sabina Park, upgraded by the Chinese - Kingston, Jamaica
Greenfields, built by the Chinese - Trelawny, Jamaica (incidentally, right next to the tourist resorts!)
Queen's Park Oval - Port of Spain, Trinidad
Providence, built by the Chinese - Guyana
Bourda, now only used for club matches - Guyana
Kensington Oval, upgraded by the Chinese - Bridgetown, Barbados
Darren Sammy stadium, built by the Chinese - Beausejour, St Lucia
St Georges, Grenada
Arnos Vale, St Vincent
Roseau, Dominica
Viv Richards statium, built by the Chinese - North Sound, Antigua
ARG, now only used for club matches - St John's, Antigua
Stanford, now used for 50-overs matches - Coolidge, Antigua
Warner Park, St Kitts

All except for Bourda and ARG are used for regional cricket. So, there are a lot of options for the WICB. There's no excuse...except penny-pinching.

basically 10.
think the aim is for each island to only have one stadium for internationals.
could rotate the games way better than they do now.
Tri series odi would work really well in the Caribbean.
island could have back to back games and the players feel like they travelling around the region.

Fans would enjoy it as well by taking boats across the islands.

All sensible suggestions, bhavesh...which is why the WICB won't adopt them.

Instead of hosting one T20 in Barbados, and three in Trinidad, they could've staged two in Barbados, and two in Trinidad.

But logic escapes the WICB....

T20Is: Ahmed Shehzad, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, Fakhar Zaman, Sarfraz Ahmed (capt & wk), Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Wahab Riaz, Sohail Tanvir, Rumman Raees, Hasan Ali, Usman Khan

ODIs: Ahmed Shehzad, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, Fakhar Zaman, Asif Zakir, Sarfraz Ahmed (capt & wk), Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Hasan Ali, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Amir, Fahim Ashraf, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Asghar

http://www.espncricinfo.com/west-indies ... 86781.html

Kamran Akmal

West Indies T20I squad
Samuel Badree, Carlos Brathwaite (capt), Jonathan Carter, Andre Fletcher, Jason Holder, Evin Lewis, Jason Mohammed, Sunil Narine, Veerasammy Permaul, Kieron Pollard, Rovman Powell, Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons, Jerome Taylor, Chadwick Walton, Keswick Williams

In:Jonathan Carter, Jason Mohammed, Veerasammy Permaul, Lendl Simmons

Out:Dwayne Bravo, Johnson Charles, Nicholas Pooran

http://www.espncricinfo.com/west-indies ... 87507.html

Pakistan have decided not to recall Butt. I would say well done, but the fact that they are even thinking about recalling a player who as Captain lead a spot fixing ring in the side is beyond the pale.

The West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Selection Panel announced the 13-man squad for first and second Twenty20 Internationals against Pakistan.

The World T20 champions will play the series-opener against the visitors on Sunday at Kensington Oval in Barbados. From there the series moves to Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad.

First ball in all matches is 12:30pm (11:30am Jamaica Time).

FULL SQUAD

26. Carlos Brathwaite (Captain)

77. Samuel Badree

98. Jason Holder

17. Evin Lewis

93. Jason Mohammed

74. Sunil Narine

55. Kieron Pollard

52. Rovman Powell

7. Marlon Samuels

54. Lendl Simmons

75. Jerome Taylor

57. Chadwick Walton

60. Kesrick Williams

http://www.windiescricket.com/news/wind ... rst-2-t20s

Pakistan is playing T20 series comprising of 4 T20's. (March 26, March 30, April 1 and April 2).
Then they play ODI series comprising of 3 ODI's ( April 7, April 9 and April 11).
Tour ends with test series comprising of 3 tests (April 22 to May 10)


T20 starts today. Squads as follows:
West Indies T20I squad
Samuel Badree, Carlos Brathwaite (capt), Jonathan Carter, Andre Fletcher, Jason Holder, Evin Lewis, Jason Mohammed, Sunil Narine, Veerasammy Permaul, Kieron Pollard, Rovman Powell, Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons, Jerome Taylor, Chadwick Walton, Keswick Williams.


Pakistan T20 squad
Ahmed Shehzad, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, Fakhar Zaman, Sarfraz Ahmed (capt & wk), Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Wahab Riaz, Sohail Tanvir, Rumman Raees, Hasan Ali, Usman Khan

mike already started a thread adi

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