Fri Dec 2
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 2nd ODI -
India v West Indies
Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam
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Match facts
Friday, December 2
Start time 1430 (0900 GMT)
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| At a venue that shot MS Dhoni into the limelight in 2005, the Indian batsmen will want to cash in |
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Matches: India v West Indies at Visakhapatnam
Series/Tournaments: West Indies tour of India
Teams: India | West Indies
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Big Picture
As the tour moves to the
YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in
Visakhapatnam,
the contest between the teams - which seemed rather predictable to
begin with - has acquired a more exciting taste following a couple of
manic finishes in the lead-up to this game. A draw with the scores level
in the third Test and a nail-biting finish in Cuttack, during which
Varun Aaron and
Umesh Yadav
provided an insight into the intricacies of human behaviour under
pressure, have spiced up a home season characterised by one-sided
contests and poor crowds.
Visakhapatnam should
not worry about poor crowds - it's only hosted three internationals in
six years and it would be an exception if the game doesn't entertain. A
high-scoring venue, teams have gone past 250 in each of the six ODI
innings here - twice while chasing successfully. In what could be a
battle of the bats at a venue that shot MS Dhoni into the limelight in
2005, the Indian top order will not want to fall victim to the "soft
dismissals" that their captain
Virender Sehwag
criticised them for after the Cuttack game. Even more so for West
Indies. They were troubled by India's seamers in Cuttack, but are now at
a venue where the bowlers' skills and variations have been of limited
value in past games.
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The decision to rest MS Dhoni has given
Parthiv Patel
an opportunity to stake his claim for a place in the limited-overs side
to Australia, where he toured as the first-choice wicketkeeper in
2003-04. He didn't have the best home series against England, getting
starts but not going beyond 38 in four games. His recent form, though,
has been good. He scored centuries in successive games for Gujarat in
the Ranji Trophy, and will hope to extend this run into international
cricket.
Lendl Simmons didn't play in the Test
series against India, left out of the squad after Adrian Barath returned
from injury. An attacking batsman upfront, Simmons, while not an
automatic pick in the longest format, has been in good touch in the
50-overs version. In 2011, he averages 56.41 in 13 games with seven
half-centuries and one ton. He took a while to get going in Cuttack
before falling for 19. Will Vizag be different?
Team news
Manoj
Tiwary and Ajinkya Rahane are part of the squad but unless there are
niggles or injury concerns, India could go in with the same team that
won in Cuttack.
India (possible) 1 Parthiv Patel
(wk), 2 Virender Sehwag (capt), 3 Gautam Gambhir, 4 Virat Kohli, 5 Rohit
Sharma, 6 Suresh Raina, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 R Ashwin, 9 R Vinay Kumar,
10 Varun Aaron, 11 Umesh Yadav.
Legspinner Anthony Martin had
some success against India when they toured West Indies earlier in the
year, but will the visitors go in with Sunil Narine for this match? An
offspinner, he made a name for himself during the Champions League T20.
He dismissed Dhoni and Suresh Raina, and used a variation he calls the
"knuckle ball" that takes the ball away from the right hander.
West Indies
1 Lendl Simmons, 2 Adrian Barath, 3 Marlon Samuels, 4 Darren Bravo, 5
Danza Hyatt, 6 Kieron Pollard, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Darren Sammy
(capt), 9 Andre Russell, 10 Kemar Roach, 11 Sunil Narine/Anthony Martin.
Stats and trivia
- India's
win in Cuttack was only their second by a one-wicket margin in ODIs.
The previous instance was in Auckland in 2003, against New Zealand, when
Ashish Nehra hit the winning runs.
- Twenty years ago, on December 6, 1991, these two teams were involved in a tie, in Perth.
Quotes
"There is no excuse for anybody not scoring runs."
Virender Sehwag wouldn't want to say that again in Visakhapatnam
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