It’s back to the Ekana Cricket Stadium for the West Indies and Afghanistan, as their three-match T20I series gets underway on Thursday morning Caribbean time. With only seventeen T20Is on the Caribbean side’s schedule, before the ICC World Twenty20 in March of next year, newly-appointed captain Kieron Pollard has next to no time to whip the defending champions into form.
And with cricket’s most-recent ball-tampering scandal keeping Nicholas Pooran ( who is, no doubt, an integral part of Pollard’s plans) out for the first three of these seventeen fixtures, the task has become a bit more difficult.
Along with himself, Pollard has been appointed the following team to marshal against Afghanistan in India: Evin Lewis, Shimron Hetmyer, Sherfane Rutherford, Brandon King, Fabian Allen, Jason Holder, Hayden Walsh Jr., Lendl Simmons, Khary Pierre, Sheldon Cottrell, Denesh Ramdin, Kesrick Williams, Alzarri Joseph.
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