The Indian cricket team, led by Suresh Raina today left for the West Indies to compete in a Twenty-20 game and a five-match one-day series. With a T-20 match on June 4th, the men in blue will begin their Caribbean campaign from Trinidad. The one day international series will be played from June the 6th.The Indian squad for the ODIs and the lone Twenty20 is without the nine players who were part of the World Cup winning team under Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The players missing out include the rested trio of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, the injured troika of Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag and Ashish Nehra and an unwell Yuvraj Singh.The three-match Test series will begin from 20th of June in which some senior players are expected to return.
News On AIR | June 1, 2011 10:45 AM
Indian cricket team leaves for West Indies