West Indies v India – 2st Test – Match Preview
West Indies and India will be up against each other today, June 28, 2011, in the second of the three-match Digicel Test Series at Bridgetown, Barbados.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 is currently leading the series 1-0 after beating the home team in the first encounter at Jamaica.
The visitors will once again start as favourites in this match and it is most likely that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mahendra-Singh-Dhoni-c73820 and company will seal the series before they head towards Roseau for the last match of the tour.
India looked much better in all the departments of the game in Jamaica as compared to the Caribbean XI and the home team will have to raise their game big time if they are to give a tough time to the visitors in the remainder of the series.
It is highly unlikely that India will make any change in their playing XI as almost all of the players contributed in the previous match. However, there is a lot of room for improvement in the batting department as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Kohli-c2737,
could not make a huge impact in the last match.
They are all quality players and one should not be surprised if we witness a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Griffith-c919 knock from one of them in Barbados, especially because the track at Barbados is surely going to be much better for the batsmen as compared the one in Jamaica, which was offering
extra assistance to both spinners and the fast bowlers.
Dhoni was very http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Mishra-c871 should have grabbed more scalps on a track which was turning square.
After the Jamaica Test, Dhoni expressed his satisfaction over the performance of the debutant http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Kumar-c2143, who picked up six wickets in the first Test.
He said, "Praveen is a very skillful bowler. Whenever the conditions are helpful, he tries to make full use of it. That's the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Main-c73911 reason that he got six wickets in this game. The spinners bowled decently. They can still improve the line of attack. They
can get slightly better. Of course, it was a bit difficult to bowl with the breeze.”
On the other side of the coin, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 and did not look comfortable at the highest level
of the sport.
This means that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marlon-Nathaniel-Samuels-c74804 is going to play in Barbados. The right-handed middle-order batsman looked in good touch in the limited overs series against India and the Caribbean cricket fans will be hoping that he carries on with the same momentum in the
Test series.
Although, the home team lost the first Test but they can still take some positives from that match as all the bowlers did a brilliant job against one of the strongest batting line-ups of the world. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Fidel-Henderson-Edwards-c57010 made a comeback to international cricket after
a couple of years and made an immediate impression as well.
However, the real problem lies in the batting department and Otis Gibson and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Young-c98322 batsmen can come to terms with the longer version of the sport.
If the West Indian batsmen can perform up to the mark in Barbados, then we can surely see a tough battle in the second Test. Otherwise, the result is not going to be much different from the previous match.
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