West Indies

[Dare]

Group and fixtures. http://www.planetcricket.org/forums...roup-d-england-ireland-west-indies-65544.html

West Indies
Chris Gayle (c)
Sulieman Benn
Dwayne Bravo
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Narsingh Deonarine
Andre Fletcher
Wavell Hinds
Nikita Miller
Kieron Pollard
Denesh Ramdin (wk)
Ravi Rampaul
Kemar Roach
Darren Sammy
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Jerome Taylor

Looking like a solid team with some good batting and hopefully some good bowling. Having the advantage of playing at home and the experience of already playing lots of matches on this wicket in Providence. The only change I would have made was bringing in Travis Dowlin in for Wavell Hinds. Hinds or Dowlin probably wouldn't make the starting XI but just in case I would rather have Dowlin who actually played some solid international cricket in the past 6 month rather then Hinds who has been struggling since making his comeback. I also think that Dowlin deserves some recognition for stepping in during the player strike and actually doing well.


My XI:

Fletcher +
Gayle
Chanderpaul
Sarwan
Deonarine
Pollard
Bravo
Sammy
Benn
Miller
Taylor/Rampaul/Roach

There are actually 7 bowling options not including Gayle. Miller, Benn, Deonarine for spin and Bravo, Sammy, Pollard with one of the 3 quick bowlers make it 4 pace options.
Darren Sammy could prove to be a really useful player on the Providence wicket with his off/leg cutters and he also adds a hard hitting option all the way down at #8.
Of course anyone would be a fool not to mention that Gayle holds the key to the West Indies success in this tournament. If he can give the team a good quick start with Fletcher then WI will go far in this tournament.

 

[McLOVIN]

Chris Gayle (c)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Andre Fletcher
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Dwayne Bravo
Kieron Pollard
Denesh Ramdin (wk)
Ravi Rampaul
Jerome Taylor
Sulieman Benn
Kemar Roach





Narsingh Deonarine
Wavell Hinds
Nikita Miller
Darren Sammy

Sorry I am into fast and furious. And Shiva can play the Kallis game. Or Mahela thing

MacLovin added 2 Minutes and 29 Seconds later...

i think i put too many bowlers.

RP and Roach/Taylor should be good. and Sammy or Deonarine could come in.

 

[Dare]

Actually like your team allot, just take out Roach for Sammy and its a solid team.
One thing with your team is if Fletcher is playing then he can keep wicket and there is no need for Ramdin and you can include one of the 2 recognized batsman.

Dare added 1 Minutes and 29 Seconds later...

Sorry I am into fast and furious.

You mean this?

 

[McLOVIN]

Oh! I totally forgot Fletcher keeps. Thats good, because i didnt know where to pur Ramdin! :

MacLovin added 3 Minutes and 21 Seconds later...

Chris Gayle *
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Andre Fletcher +
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Narsingh Deonarine
Dwayne Bravo
Kieron Pollard
Darren Sammy
Ravi Rampaul
Jerome Taylor/ Kemar Roach
Sulieman Benn


Bat down to 10. 6/7 bowlers. Bold part needs to be alternated, depending on the situation. Would hate to see Pollard bat that low...


But i hate picking "my own" team. Because when the official teams come out, they look nothing like mine. Get very disappointed.

 

[aussie1st]

WI team looks pretty good, certainly could win it. Bowling doesn't look as threatening as some of the other ones in the comp but it could be effective.

 

[Paki007]

home grounds may will give some advantage but gayle should have to lead from the front

 

[Varun]

West Indies' new kit looks awful to me!

 

[Aussie Team]

I think its training kit...

 

[McLOVIN]

he is talkin about this http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/116500/116520.jpg

 

[pcfan123]

West Indies' new kit looks awful to me!

This, seriously what blind gay guy designed those!

 

[aussie1st]

WI shouldn't be in blue, they are maroon. Don't think many will be buying that shirt, I certainly wouldn't want to wear that.

 

[McLOVIN]

The Caribbean sea? IDK where they took the blue from. May be it represents their Indian side

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

i think that's an improvement on the monstrosity they had before as their normal kit. the green collar was awful.

 

[McLOVIN]

Sulieman Benn celebrates a wicket | Photo | ICC World Twenty20 2010 | Cricinfo.com

this maroon is different from the last 1. i like this maroon. would look really good without the blue

MacLovin added 13 Minutes and 55 Seconds later...

Best WI Kits

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[MuchMore]

Strange match for WI yesterday. Gayle and the other opener did reasonably well but others failed too badly.

I wonder if the pitches will remain this way in the actual tournament as well. 'coz if they do, by the end of the tournament, 120 would be a winning score and every team would be calling their test-specialists as replacements for the sloggers aka T20 specialists.