Hosts India and the West Indies will commence the five-match ODI series from Wednesday.
Even as the scribes sought to know the reason behind the miss, official sources said "perhaps their team management meeting was still continuing and that should be the reason for their not showing up at the ground".
India is at No. 1 in the Reliance ICC Team Rankings for One-Day Internationals at the moment with 113 ratings points, while West Indies is down at No. 8 with 96 points.
The visitors will, therefore, be desperate to put that situation right when the two teams face off in a five match ODI series in India, starting with the first game in Kochi on Wednesday (October 8). That aside, of course, both teams will be giving the contests extra attention as it is with these matches that the preparations for the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 will kick off. There are just over fifty One Day Internationals left across the world before the start of the ICC Cricket World Cup on February 14, so every match is crucial as the build-up gathers pace.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Ramnaresh Sarwan will play for the Trinidad & Tobago Red Force during the upcoming regional season, after he was selected in the second round of the Player Draft of the West Indies Cricket Board’s Professional Cricket League.
The inaugural Player Draft was staged just before midday on Monday at Accra Beach Hotel here.
Sarwan, a former Guyana and West Indies captain, with the experience of 87 Tests, 181 One-day Internationals and 18 Twenty20 Internationals is one of only two players who have not been selected by their territorial sides.
“We felt having a player of the calibre of Sarwan in our side would be invaluable to our squad which includes a number of young players,” said Red Force Head Coach Gus Logie.
All-rounder Raymon Reifer is the other player selected by a franchise outside of his home territory. He will play for the Guyana franchise.
“We have struggled with the all-rounder role and we were glad to get a second player in the all-rounder position,” said Guyana Chairman of Selectors Rayon Griffith.
Chasing a challenging 282 at the Wankhede Stadium, the Windies could only muster 266 for nine off their 50 overs, with Ramdin leading the way with a sparkling 102.
Jason Holder further enhanced his growing reputation as an all-rounder with 54 from 42 deliveries, while former Test and one-day skipper Darren Sammy stroked 50 from 67 balls. But the rest or the batting faltered to leave the Windies short of their target.
WEST INDIES have again been jolted by the suspension of one of their major spinners, this time their most prominent.
As much to the point, Sunil Narine’s censuring by the umpires for a suspect action in successive matches for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKK) in the Champions League that ended in Bengaluru yesterday is further evidence that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has finally grasped the game’s most agonising nettle it had attempted for too long, albeit with good intentions, to handle with kid gloves.
