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Today, Virat Kohli led Indian team faces Jason Holder led West Indian team from today i.e 21st July 2016 in a Four Match Test series. India last played a test series in West Indies in 2011 and won 1-0.
West Indies have not been a great team in the recent past, though they have ocassionally performed great and even won the Twenty-20 world cup as well.
West Indies, apart from the captain Jason Holder also has other good experienced and new players like Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Carlos Brathwaite- the Twenty-20 win star, Devendra Bishoo and a few more.
This series can serve as a good platform for West Indies to build a team for longer term, though their teams have been in some or the other tussle with their cricket board.
The key will be with their batsmen and pace bowlers, but spinner Bishoo can also do good.
India of course, have Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane, to whom the team would look for big support, and Shami is back in pace department.
Yet, we also have R. Ashwin to lead the spin attack.
K.L.Rahul and Cheteshwar Pujara would look forward to cementing their places, and Shikhar Dhawan will also have his task cut out.
Wriddhiman Saha will also like to prove his worth, with catches and stumpings, and may be some nice scores while batting. Ishant Sharma too would like to prove his mettle once again.
The challenge in West Indies would be to play on wickets with uneven bounce, and some wickets might be two-paced.
At some, batting will need patience, and so will bowling, but spinners will likely do good.
All in all, it will be a series where Indian can test some of its players who are struggling and newer players.
Source: Based on inputs from Times of India Website
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