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GUYANA CHRONICLE Wednesday August 3, 2016
India, West Indies to play T20 games in United States (REUTERS) - India will play two Twenty20 internationals against world champions West Indies in Florida (in late August, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday. India lead 1-0 in their four-Test series against West Indies, and the Twenty20 matches will mark the first full member games in the United States in four years,
when New Zealand played West Indies. The games will be held on August 27 and 28 at the Broward Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, a month after six Caribbean Premier League games, were played there. The Broward Stadium is the only ground in the United States that meets international cricket specifications, and organisers say they have invested about
$1.4M to bring it up to standard including tweaking the floodlights to point at the pitch and erecting big video screens. The United States would be a big market to crack for cricket bosses. The Twenty20 format is likely to be the most appealing form of the game, in the face of traditional U.S. sports, thanks to explosive batting and a relatively short matches. “This will be a great opportunity for the cricket fans
in America to watch the two champion sides in action. This will be developed into an annual cricketing event in the United States,” BCCI president Anurag Thakur said in a statement. “This will be a great initiative in our continued efforts to develop cricket in the Americas, a very important market,” Whycliffe Cameron, president of West Indies Cricket Board, said.
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throughout the afternoon prevented further play. With a forecast for mainly fine weather today, the Windies look like going 2-0 down in the four-Test series unless they can somehow survive three full sessions without losing six wickets. The crushing defeat in the first match in Antigua meant the hosts had lost seven out of eight Tests, drawing the other game. It took less than three overs yesterday for the rot to set in as opener Rajendra Chandrika continued his miserable series, bowled by paceman Ishant Sharma for one, the ball striking the batsman’s elbow and deflecting on to the stumps. Fellow opener Kraigg Brathwaite was next to fall for 23 when he skied a short ball from leg-spinner Amit Mishra to mid-wicket. Marlon Samuels then went for a duck, cleanbowled by paceman Mohammed Shami, the ball keeping lower than the batsman was expecting and striking his off stump. Shami then picked up another scalp with what proved to be the last ball of the day when Darren Bravo (20), who had looked shaky from the start, fended a short, rising ball to third slip. It was Bravo’s fourth cheap dismissal in the series. He has made 41 runs in four knocks. “That looks a very soft dismissal to me,” said Richards while commentating on television. “For a top class batsman that’s weak, very, very weak. Darren Bravo may have to rethink exactly how he’d like to play especially having not been successful against the quicks over the years.” Richards, who retired with an average of more than 50, then became more general in his observations of West Indian batting. Saying he did not want to sound unduly negative but could not sugar-coat things, he said: “You cannot be served up sardines and (have) someone saying it’s caviar. “Some of the deliveries that got some of these guys out looked a little bit kindergarten-ish at times.”
SCOREBOARD WEST INDIES 1st innings 196 (J. Blackwood 62; R. Ashwin 5-52) INDIA 1st innings 500 for 9 decl. (L. Rahul 158, A. Rahane 108 n.o.; R. Chase 5-121) WEST INDIES 2nd innings K. Brathwaite c Rahul b Mishra 23 R. Chandrika b I. Sharma 1 Da. Bravo c Rahul b Shami 20 M. Samuels b Shami 0 J. Blackwood not out 3 Extras: (nb-1) 1 Total: (for 4 wickets, 15.5 overs) 48 Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-41, 3-41, 4-48. Bowling: I. Sharma 6-0-19-1 (nb-1), M. Shami 7.5-2-25-2, A. Mishra 2-1-4-1.