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HEADLINE: West Indies set to host India for four Tests
CaribbeanCricket.com
Mar 29, 2016, 1:42:39 AM
India will travel to the Caribbean later this summer to play a four-Test series, Dave Cameron, the WICB president, has confirmed. The announcement puts an end to the uncertainty that has surrounded the series - listed on the ICC's Future Tours Programme - ever since the BCCI suspended bilateral engagements as a penalty for West Indies' abandoning of their tour to India mid-way in late 2014.
Although no dates have been fixed, Cameron said the Test series would be spread over July and August. What that means, however, is that the tour would clash with, and disrupt, the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which is likely to begin in late June, and finish in the first week of August. "The official word is that the tour is on," Cameron told Cricket Radio in Nagpur on Sunday. "We are just awaiting confirmation of the venues now. And once we have done that, we will send out a release with the dates, the venues and everything."
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FanAttick
Mar 29, 2016, 2:23:47 AM
In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
Mindia sticking it to Cameron... 
Will contracted CPL players opt out of the test series? Will Cameron get away with fielding a B team?
Drapsey
Mar 29, 2016, 2:36:35 AM
In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
Big up Jamaican Dave for convening such a tour, a tour which will go a long way in mending relations between East and West India. This is even after the Prima Donna players hung him (and us) out to dry on that fateful Indian tour.
Walk yuh walk, big Dave!
XDFIX
Mar 29, 2016, 2:44:59 AM
Cameron: tried, tested, and proven - Not a bag-a-mouth!
navindesigns
Mar 29, 2016, 5:24:01 AM
ent no one got time for that
play 20 T20s instead
Tryangle
Mar 29, 2016, 5:37:49 AM
In reply to navindesigns
India probably needed the Test rankings points
Khaga
Mar 29, 2016, 6:25:16 AM
In reply to Tryangle
Are you saying West Indies are cheap sellouts?
tops
Mar 29, 2016, 7:00:59 AM
In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
When does summer start in the Caribbean? 
Tryangle
Mar 30, 2016, 5:13:52 AM
In reply to Khaga
not necessarily sellouts, but if India (or another Big 3 team) comes knocking, Windies have little choice but to oblige.
Narper
Mar 30, 2016, 5:23:27 AM
Cameron also took the opportunity to insist that the relations between the BCCI and WICB were absolutely cordial, and that he failed to understand where the reports of perceived differences came from.
"You know, the truth is I am not sure where the talk of bad relations with the WICB and the BCCI have come from," Cameron said. "We have always maintained good relations. Fortunately or unfortunately, the leadership of the BCCI has changed, and as you know, Mr Shashank Manohar is now the president, BCCI, and chairman of the ICC, and he has made some changes there as well, and we've been able to move forward in an efficient way."
Narper
Mar 30, 2016, 5:24:23 AM
"The official word is that the tour is on," Cameron told Cricket Radio in Nagpur on Sunday. "We are just awaiting confirmation of the venues now. And once we have done that, we will send out a release with the dates, the venues and everything."
Khaga
Mar 30, 2016, 5:40:05 AM
In reply to Tryangle
It will be an exciting series.