The two Twenty20 Internationals over the weekend will be the first instance of India being involved in a competitive match in the USA.
Cricket will seek to reach out to the untapped American market when the sport's most followed practitioners, India, lock horns with the West Indies in their maiden international game in the US from Saturday.
The two Twenty20 Internationals over the weekend will be the first instance of India being involved in a competitive match in the USA. Days after India cruised to victory in the four-match Test series for their third successive triumph on the Caribbean soil, the team's seasoned campaigner Mahendra Singh Dhoni will return to lead the side in the two limited overs games at the Central Broward Regional Park, the only purpose-built cricket stadium in the US.
It is the only ICC certified ODI standard stadium facility in the USA and hosted six Caribbean Premier League matches last month. The 14-member Indian team will see the return of as many as 11 regular players who were rested from the tour to Zimbabwe in May earlier this year.
The two-match series is going to be the first of what will develop into an annual event in the USA as part of efforts to reach out to new markets and audiences. Even though India won the Test series 2-0, players from the Test squad are coming with hardly any recent match practice because of the rain-affected fourth Test in Port-of-Spain where the last four days didn't see any play.
Where to watch on TV: Star Sports 1, Star Sports HD1, Star Sports 3, and Star Sports HD 3
Schedule:
First T20I: Saturday, 27 August, 2016, 07.30 pm IST
Second T20I: Sunday, 28 August, 2016, 07.30 pm IST
Squad
India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain and WK), Umesh Yadav, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Stuart Binny, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Amit Mishra, Ajinkya Rahane
West Indies: Carlos Brathwaite (Captain), Jason Holder, Chris Gayle, Johnson Charles, Andre Fletcher, Dwayne Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell, Samuel Badree, Evin Lewis, Sunil Narine, Lendl Simmons
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