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India in West Indies 2016
2,June,2016
July,6- India to tour West Indies for seven weeks.
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and two practice matches. The Indian team will tour the West Indies for seven
weeks, starting July 6. The Tests will be played in Antigua and Barbuda,
Jamaica, St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.The tour will start with a two-day
practice match from July 9 in St Kitts followed by a three-day warm-up match
from July 14 at the same venue. The first Test will begin from July 21, the
second from July 30, the third from August 9 and the last one from August 18.
Despite
the BCCI and WICB confirming the tour more than six months ago, the
announcement of the itinerary was delayed owing to the series clashing with the
Caribbean Premier League (CPL), which starts from June 30. The WICB was
involved in talks with CPL officials to avoid any potential venue clash. The
BCCI also sent its general manager MV Sridhar to do a recce of the venues in
May.Roland Holder, said ,head of operations at the West Indies Cricket Board,
"are ready to host the visiting Indian team." The last time the
Indian team toured the West Indies was in June 2011 for a three-Test series,
which India won 1-0.Last December, the top brass of the two boards had met in
India following which WICB president Dave Cameron had said that the Indian
board would honour the four-Test series, listed in the ICC's Future Tours
Programme.
The series was in doubt after the BCCI had suspended all bilateral
ties immediately after West Indies had pulled out of the India tour mid-way in
October 2014.Last month, former BCCI president Shashank Manohar told
ESPNcricinfo that the board had waived off the $41.97 million damages imposed
by the previous BCCI administration on the WICB for abandoning the 2014 tour.
Manohar had said the WICB had guaranteed West Indies would return to India in
2017 to complete the unfinished matches.
The Indian team is expected to depart for the Caribbean with a new coaching
staff, applications for which were advertised by the BCCI on Wednesday. The
deadline for receiving the applications is June 10. It will be followed by a
screening process to be initially handled by the BCCI, which will then submit a
list of names to the soon-to-be-formed cricket advisory committee comprising
reputed former players.That committee will then submit a shortlist back to the
BCCI, which will likely discuss this further, if not unveil the new coach,
during its working committee meeting in Dharamsala on June 25. A new addition
this time in the support staff will be a chef, who has been appointed by the
BCCI to mainly cater to the vegetarians in the squad.
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