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Wicketkeeper nudges runs – and the selectors – in strong first-innings showing for Surrey

David Hopps08-Apr-2022The three rivals for the England Test wicketkeeper’s position were in the news and, habitually these days, only one of them was playing in the LV= Championship. Compared to the blare of the IPL, Edgbaston felt like a place to Not Get Yourself Noticed, but Ben Foakes did his utmost to challenge that notion and he will have stirred the interest of those who matter (whoever they turn out to be) with a century at the first time of asking.Foakes’ unbeaten 132, from 265 balls with 18 fours and a six, was a hard-working, spruce affair, neat of thought and deed. It enabled Surrey to declare 12 overs before the end of the second day on 428 for 8. Warwickshire, although two down, will still envisage a high-scoring draw as a stable enough start to their title defence, although watching Dom Sibley, a natural stonewaller, thick-edging a wide one from Reece Topley on to his stumps, first ball, will not exactly have filled them with joy.It was Foakes’ final decisive contribution, though, as the skies darkened, that provided a reminder of why Surrey’s director of cricket, Alec Stewart, who is not someone given to hyperbole, regards him as the best wicketkeeper in the world. Will Rhodes’ dismissal against Kemar Roach could easily be routinely described as an unfortunate strangle but for Foakes, after batting for six hours on the second day, to show such anticipation and light-footedness as he moved down the leg side for a ball dying in front of him was a reminder that here is England’s true representative of the wicketkeeper’s art. For many keepers, including those against whom he contests an England place, it might well have gone down as a near miss.Foakes is England’s man in possession, although there is little certainty in that fact considering that he had a disappointing tour of the West Indies and was part of an experimental squad, selected by an interim panel, that lost the series 1-0 and as a result caused general consternation over England’s Test failings. He deserves to play a first home Test against New Zealand at Lord’s at the start of June and has six matches to underline the fact.Related

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The more celebrated contenders, Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow are in the IPL, Buttler having already made the first hundred of the tournament, and Bairstow coming out of quarantine to play his first game on Friday, making 8 for Punjab Kings, a match in which he kept wicket and batted at No. 3.As Foakes brought order upon the day, Buttler also figured in an ECB media release about England’s new T20 shirt. Indeed, he was described as “integral to the design” of a high-stretch, recycled poly-elastane little number that apparently will leave England “ready to perform at their best”. It was not revealed whether this highly attractive solution, which appears to obviate the need for coaches or tactics, will also work for the Test team. The ethos of the sportswear company (Castore), incidentally, is “Better Never Stops”, which must be what appealed to the ECB which doesn’t really believe in time off.Foakes, who appears to be more of a 100% cotton sort, began the second day on 9 and needed two escapes in the slips, a tough chance to Rob Yates on 37, a more acceptable offering to Rhodes on 54. Those blemishes apart, he showed good judgment and placement, scoring primarily with flicks and clips. When he did drive down the ground, he relied more on timing than weight of stroke. “I was happy how I batted,” he said. “It was a bit of a hard slog at times.”His entire game is based on understatement in an age of overstatement. Such decorum will delight many in Frinton, the genteel Essex seaside town and home of his first club. Frinton does not do excess. Its 19th century town charter banned pubs, ice creams and other vices. When the 21st century dawned, and a pub was finally allowed, a resident consoled himself that they don’t really see too much of “the tearaway element”. It’s tough to escape your childhood.What England will be grateful to see is that Foakes’ appetite to bat for long periods remains high. This was an innings where the most important message lay in the “minutes” column. He has told how he has had to contend with burnout in several previous county seasons, a player on the fringes of the England side, seeking the highest standards yet surviving on a circuit that puts quantity above quality. Connoisseurs of Test cricket, and wicketkeeping, will be delighted to see an early indication that he is approaching the season with vigour.Warwickshire, those dropped chances apart, rarely extended Foakes on a surface where Surrey will struggle to force a victory. They did not resemble a Championship-winning attack. Oliver Hannon-Dalby, in his first competitive bowl since June, managed to cut the ball back at times to finish with 4 for 78, bowling Ollie Pope through the gate, as he had done Hashim Amla on the first day, and also finding purchase to have Will Jacks lbw, but the other seamers were finding their way again.The partnership that carried the game away from Warwickshire was 86 in 28 for the seventh wicket as Jordan Clark struck a confident half-century before he swept at Yates and became his fifth first-class victim (he added Roach later) and James Taylor rubbed it in as he and Foakes added another 78 for the ninth wicket.Surrey will be strong until England come calling, and if Topley stays fit, and need a flying start to the season. They have also had the independence of thought to omit Sam Curran, on form grounds, even though he had been made available by England, and if the Championship is to regain its reputation, then such self-determination is essential. It will be tough to achieve victory on this surface, but little is certain before the trees are in leaf.

Left-arm seamer added just hours before series opener after Saini complained of back spasm

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Nov-20204:37

T Natarajan’s long journey to IPL stardom

T Natarajan, the Tamil Nadu and Sunrisers Hyderabad left-arm seamer, has been added to India’s ODI squad, just hours before the series opener, as cover for Navdeep Saini. According to a BCCI media release, Saini had complained of “back spasm.”Natarajan wasn’t in any of the white-ball squads in the first place, but an injury to his state-mate Varun Chakravarthy got him his maiden national call-up for the T20I leg of the Australia tour.ALSO READ: Kohli: Younger players will feature a lot in Australia tourNatarajan excelled in the death overs for the Sunrisers in IPL 2020 in the UAE, bowling 71 yorkers during this phase, more than double the next best. He conceded 57 off these 71 deliveries – at an economy of 4.81 – while picking up five wickets, including that of AB de Villiers in the Eliminator against the Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore.Natarajan has played 15 List A matches so far, picking up 16 wickets at an average of 30.81 and economy rate of 4.30. His rise has been remarkable because it’s unusual for the selectors to pick an uncapped 29-year-old. The last two fast bowlers to make their international debuts for India after 29 were S Aravind in 2015 and Pankaj Singh in 2014. Prior to that, one has to go back to 1994, when Bhupinder Singh Snr. made his ODI debut, and then all the way back to 1958, when Ghulam Guard played the first of his two Tests.Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Shardul Thakur are the other frontline seam-bowling options for India in their ODI squad.

Two-Test tour falls outside of World Test Championship, and therefore offers a chance to avoid player burn-our

George Dobell29-Jul-2019England may use the New Zealand tour later this year to rest players and coaching staff as they seek to reduce the dangers of “burn out”. That could raise the possibility that they may tour with an interim coach and a temporary replacement as Test captain.England are scheduled to play two Tests and five T20Is in New Zealand during a tour that starts in late October and ends in early December.But with those Tests not counting towards the World Test Championship and England also scheduled to undertake tours to South Africa – where they will play four Tests, three ODIs and three T20Is – and Sri Lanka – where they will play two Tests – during the winter of 2019-20, Ashley Giles has admitted there may be a temptation to rest the busiest players and coaches.”We’re not trying to lessen the importance of that series, but it’s not in the World Test Championship,” Giles, the managing director of England men’s cricket, said. “We’ve got a lot of cricket this winter and we need to be careful with some of the workloads. It isn’t part of the Test Championship so we’ll use that series as we see really.”The World Test Championship (WTC) is launched this week in the hope the added context will increase interest in the longest format of the game. But the series in New Zealand was arranged before the announcement of the WTC and results in it will not accrue points.Avoiding the burn-out of his players and coaches is likely to be an important feature of Giles’ role at the helm. He admits there is little he can do to change the schedule – financial realities necessitate an almost never-ending tour for England – but reasons that resting individuals can extend their careers.”We play more home cricket than anyone,” Giles said. “And while there may be some things you can do with the schedule, there are other pressures – money pressures, TV pressures – that make it a very tricky balance. We’ll probably have the same number of fixtures but more rotation of players.It was a tough day for Joe Root and his team•Getty Images

“That puts more focus how we care for players and make sure we don’t get any burn-out. We’ve got to be flexible with the players otherwise we’re going to lose them.”There was undoubtedly a hangover from the World Cup during the Ireland Test. After the emotional and physical strain of that seven weeks and particularly the final… I worried how we would pick the players up if we lost. Fortunately we didn’t, but heading into a Test match against Ireland a week later was difficult for them.”England could also go to New Zealand with an interim coach. While Giles admits he has had “some very relaxed conversations over a coffee or the phone” with prospective candidates, he has been keen not to overshadow the World Cup or Ashes preparations with speculation about the new head coach so has delayed a formal beginning of the process.”It might be a caretaker coach, yes,” Giles said. “I’ve always said if you looked at the World Cup and the Ashes it was far more important for me to have some stability now and less noise and chatter around the new head coach than worrying about someone going in who’s babysitting the New Zealand tour. I’d rather that than everything going on now.”That caretaker will not be Bayliss, who has already booked his flight home. “I think Trev’s done and I mean that in the nicest possible way,” Giles said. “He may always seem relaxed on the outside but he cares a lot and he’s had some sleepless nights through this summer. He’s a good guy and I think he’s done it the right way. He’s set himself a goal of getting to the end of this Ashes and then letting someone else take over.”One man who could be rested from the Test side is the captain, Joe Root. Root’s appetite for the game – and, in particular, his desire to re-establish himself as a T20 player – have rendered him hard to leave out and he has played every game (expect one World Cup warm-up match) this year.And assuming he is not another player in line for a rest, that would mean that Ben Stokes, who has been reappointed as the side’s vice-captain, could lead the team in the nation in which he was born.That would sustain an impressive comeback for Stokes, who missed the previous Ashes series after the ECB decided he should not be selected ahead of his trial for affray. He was subsequently found not guilty and capped a successful return to the side by being named player of the match in the World Cup final.”I take pride in being vice-captain,” Stokes said. “I love having that responsibility and it is something that I thoroughly enjoy doing. Being part of that think-tank is pretty cool. Playing in an Ashes series is always special and they don’t come around that often.”I am very good friends with Joe as well, off the field, and as much as I can do to help him through his career, not just as a captain but as a player as well, I am really looking forward to that challenge. Being named vice-captain again was very good words to hear when I got the call.”

To do that, they will have to find a way to counter Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Mohammad Nabi on what is expected to be another spin-friendly pitch in Dehradun

The Preview by Mohammad Isam06-Jun-2018

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With the series decided on Tuesday evening, Afghanistan can bask in the glory of overpowering another Test-playing nation. Having won matches against West Indies and a number of ODI and T20 series against Zimbabwe, beating Bangladesh should rank as an important step in their progress in international cricket.But it should not cloud their minds from targeting a 3-0 whitewash. Already they have shown better decision-making and have applied their skills better in the first two games, rendering Bangladesh’s batting and late-over bowling ineffective.Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi and Mujeeb Ur Rahman have strangled an experienced batting line-up, and Mohammad Shahzad, Samiullah Shenwari and Nabi have contributed with the bat. Afghanistan would welcome more runs from Usman Ghani, Asghar Stanikzai and Najibullah Zadran, and might also look at the option of experimenting by bringing in young batsmen like Najeeb Tarakai, Darwish Rasooli and Gulbadin Naib.Bangladesh on the other hand have looked shorn of confidence in their ability, their lack of T20 know-how rudely exposed. Whether the BCB had wanted such a test is anyone’s guess, but the cricketers have to bear most of the responsibility for such a performance.They are a far more experienced side in international cricket than Afghanistan but there have been passages of play when they looked naïve and out of touch with the ever-changing world of T20 cricket.Still, they would hope that the likes of Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim can motivate themselves once more to salvage some pride. What will concern them most is the performance of the younger players such as Sabbir Rahman and Mosaddek Hossain, who have struggled in particular to read Rashid’s googly.

Form guide

Afghanistan: WWWWL
Bangladesh: LLLWL

In the spotlight

Before all the craze for Rashid Khan, one of Afghanistan’s early stars was Mohammad Nabi, who continues to be an important performer. His steady offspin and big-hitting ability have made him a viable option in T20 leagues worldwide, and his impact is magnified when he plays for Afghanistan. Nabi’s unbeaten 31 and 2 for 19 was the match-winning performance that perfectly complemented Rashid in Tuesday’s game.Liton Das was an improved batsman during Bangladesh’s tour of South Africa last year, as well as in the Nidahas Trophy in March. He promised a little in the first game of this T20 series, but fell to a soft dismissal on Tuesday. With so much going wrong for Bangladesh, some runs from Liton would definitely be welcomed.Peter Della Penna

Team news

Having already sealed the series, Afghanistan could try out the likes of Najeeb Tarakai, Darwish Rasooli, Gulbadin Naib, Sharafuddin Ashraf and Aftab Alam. But they would also be tempted to press on with the same XI and push for a whitewash.Afghanistan (probable): 1 Mohammad Shahzad (wk), 2 Usman Ghani, 3 Asghar Stanikzai (capt), 4 Najibullah Zadran, 5 Mohammad Nabi, 6 Samiullah Shenwari, 7 Shafiqullah, 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Karim Janat, 10 Mujeeb Ur Rahman, 11 Shapoor ZadranBangladesh’s management could try Ariful Haque and see if he can improve their so far woeful late-overs batting. Another option is Mehdy Hasan Miraz, given the spin-friendly conditions in Dehradun, with the medium-pace of Abul Hasan and Abu Jayed looking ineffective.Bangladesh (probable): 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Liton Das, 3 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 4 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 5 Mahmudullah, 6 Sabbir Rahman, 7 Mosaddek Hossain, 8 Soumya Sarkar, 9 Abu Hider, 10 Rubel Hossain, 11 Nazmul Islam

Pitch and conditions

Spin is likely to remain hugely influential – so far, Afghanistan have bettered Bangladesh both at bowling it and batting against it. Late showers are forecast for Thursday evening.

Stats and trivia

• Liton Das took first strike in Tuesday’s game, which meant Tamim Iqbal didn’t face the first ball of the innings for the first time in his 68-match T20I career.
• Samiullah Shenwari has struck six sixes in the T20 series so far, the most he has hit in any T20I series or tournament.

More than 100 capped international players will be among the 351 players available for bidding at the upcoming IPL 2017 auction in Bangalore on February 20

Nagraj Gollapudi13-Feb-20170:48

Quick Facts: IPL 2017 Auction

A total of 351 players, which includes 122 capped internationals, will feature in the IPL auction, scheduled to be held in Bangalore on February 20. The final roster was pruned from the original list of 799 players, after the eight franchises submitted their wishlists to the IPL.Fast bowler Ishant Sharma is one of the seven players with a maximum base price of INR 2 crore – approximately US $298,000 – for the tenth player auction. The other six include three England players – allrounder Ben Stokes, ODI and T20I captain Eoin Morgan and allrounder Chris Woakes – two Australian fast men Mitchell Johnson and Pat Cummins, and Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews.In the initial list there were 160 capped players from nine countries – none from Pakistan – and 639 uncapped ones. The final list also contained six players from the Associates, including five from Afghanistan: captain Asghar Stanikzai, Mohammad Nabi, Mohammad Shahzad, Rashid Khan and Dawlat Zadran. Shahzad and Rashid have the highest base prices among the five at INR 50 lakh. UAE batsman Chirag Suri was the other Associate player in the list.Seamer Sudeep Tyagi, who has played four ODIs, is the only one to have been cut from the original list of 24 capped Indian players.Considering they will have to put a majority of their players back into the auction in 2018, some franchise officials said they would not be too aggressive in buying players this season. However, they did agree that there would be considerable interest in the English players.Although the IPL is yet to decide on the retention rules, franchises expect the right-to-match option to be available. This allows a franchise to buy back a specific number of the players they have released for the auction by matching the highest bid those players attract. If they match the bid, they get the player.

Eoin Morgan said England had to learn quickly from their mistakes ahead of the World T20 as they ended their tour of South Africa with a fifth successive limited-overs defeat

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Feb-2016Eoin Morgan said England had to learn quickly from their mistakes ahead of the World T20 as they ended their tour of South Africa with a fifth successive limited-overs defeat.England slumped from a promising position to be bowled out for 171 in Johannesburg, losing their last seven wickets for 14 runs in 20 deliveries. South Africa then blasted their way to a nine-wicket win with more than five overs to spare, with Morgan calling the bowling performance their “worst on tour”.Having won their previous six T20s before the series with South Africa, Morgan said the team knew there would be days when things didn’t come together but back-to-back defeats would not be cause for panic.”I don’t think it’s a huge setback,” Morgan said. “I think the mistakes we made today were pretty simple, as towards the end of the one-day series and the first Twenty20 – they all had to do with the basics of the game.”The collapse towards the end of our innings, we had the right plan, but our execution was pretty poor.”The bowling started poorly again, and we couldn’t claw it back. The bowling display, certainly at the start, has been our worst on the tour.”England had made a change to their line-up after a last-ball defeat in Cape Town on Friday, bringing in Sam Billings to bolster the batting, but their three-man seam attack could do little to slow South Africa as AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla put on 125 for the first wicket, including 88 off the six-over Powerplay.”Once you allow guys like AB de Villiers to come in and take the game to you … he can really punish you – and he did,” Morgan said.”We’ve been quite lucky with this team. We’ve had very few setbacks, and knew we would have them at some stage. It’s more important that we regroup, and learn from this as much as we can. The first point of reference is our basics … they have let us down.”Defeat meant England conceded both limited-overs series to South Africa, having led 2-0 in the ODIs with three to play.”The majority of me feels we didn’t deserve to win,” Morgan said, “we haven’t really taken our chance to hurt the opposition in either the one-dayers or Twenty20s.”

Australia opener Chris Rogers shares his experience of playing with DRS and says it has encouraged umpires to give more lbw decisions

Brydon Coverdale30-Jul-2013Shane Watson might not quite be in “Gooch lbw Alderman” territory just yet, but he has been trapped in front three times in this series and his initial lunge forward has left him with a higher percentage of lbw dismissals than any other batsman who has played more than 70 Test innings. His opening partner Chris Rogers has a slightly unusual take on the situation.”At least it’s one thing that he can work on,” Rogers said. “I’m sure he has been working on that. If he can kind of prevent that from happening then it’s going to make it hard for the English bowlers …
He wouldn’t be normal if he didn’t realise that it’s the way they’re targeting him.”Whether or not Watson’s pad has a silver lining, it was at least one very specific area he could work on in London and Manchester over the past week, while most of the team was playing against Sussex. Rogers was with Watson, but with no such straightforward blueprint. How can working in the nets help a batsman avoid being lbw to a thigh-high full toss, or being bowled leaving an offbreak that just didn’t turn?”I think I’ve been doing some pretty good things and then just getting out,” Rogers said. “And that’s been the disappointing thing. I know I’ve got to be better and whether that’s concentration or whatever. I’ve been thinking about it a lot, naturally, and hopefully I can be better for the next few matches.”In his return to the baggy green after playing a solitary Test against India in 2008, Rogers has made 16, 52, 15 and 6, and he needs a big innings to avoid being remembered as the man who was lbw to a Graeme Swann rank full toss. Rogers would have had that decision overturned in the first innings at Lord’s had he asked for a review, but having failed to have an lbw reversed at Trent Bridge and seen Watson use up one review already, he was reluctant to use the DRS.”It kind of went up and over the sight screen and I just lost it,” Rogers said. “Kind of got surprised, thought it was a free hit, and unfortunately it hit me rather embarrassingly but I guess I just lost it and I don’t really know what else to say there. It was hard to know where the ball was going because there was no normal reference points and in hindsight it would have been nice to challenge the lbw.”My lbw in the first Test, where it’s just clipping and I thought that was going down, it puts a little bit of doubt in your mind about what’s going on. It only has to clip so when it all happened … the other thing is it happened so quickly, emotion takes over a little bit and there were no real reference points so it was hard to know what to do, and particularly [because] it would have been the second review.”Rogers has watched the DRS develop from afar but this is the first series he has played with the system in place, and he said it was difficult to decide on the spur of the moment how to use the reviews. He said batsmen needed to be even more conscious than usual of getting bat on ball, because the technology appeared to have encouraged umpires to give more lbw calls.”I think that DRS has changed a lot of people’s understanding of what’s going on,” he said. “As a cricketer I’ve made a pretty poor umpire so far. This is the first time I’ve been involved with it. It’s a bit of a learning process, and you have to learn quickly.”Naturally, if you’re an umpire seeing more balls hit the stumps, then it’s probably swaying your opinion but I don’t know, that’s their job. It’s the same for both sides and as a team we’ve got to try and use this review system better than we have. You’ve got to try and get hit on the pads less. I guess the other thing is playing spin, and getting hit on the front pad, has made it a bit different. You’ve got to use your bat more, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing.”Having spent their time in the nets to freshen up and get away from the spotlight, Rogers and Watson will resume their opening partnership at Old Trafford later this week. Surprisingly, Rogers is yet to play a first-class match at Old Trafford despite having played 119 first-class games in the UK; fate would have it that whenever he has signed for a county team, Lancashire have typically been in the other division.But Rogers knows that his vast experience of domestic cricket in England has given him a sound base for Test matches, even if he is yet to transfer that form to the international arena. He said it was difficult to avoid putting extra pressure on himself given the attention that is placed on Test cricketers compared to state or county players.”This side that we’re playing against, the bowlers are very good,” he said. “Then just the extra pressure that you almost put yourself under. I guess in some respects I’ve been trying too hard, just trying to work really hard and bogging myself down a bit.”The pressures that go on with playing international cricket – everyone looking on, the big crowds, those things – that’s what you have to deal with to be a good international player. I knew that before but it’s still something you have to confront.”

Michael Di Venuto, the Durham batsman, has retired from county cricket with immediate effect after six years with the club

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Jul-2012Michael Di Venuto, the Durham batsman, has retired from county cricket with immediate effect after six years with the club.Di Venuto, 37, scored 6488 first-class runs for Durham since joining in 2007 including a tally of 1654 in 2009 when the county won the second of their back-to-back Championship titles. However, this season he had averaged 29.10 from five matches and decided he could no longer reach the levels required for the first-class game.”My body won’t allow me to prepare and play the way I want,” he said. “I set high standards for myself and if I was to continue playing then it would be below these standards. While I know I still have some quality short form cricket in me, the day in day out nature of first-class cricket I physically can’t do anymore.”My time at Durham has been incredible. To play with a great bunch of blokes in some history making teams is something that I will cherish and look back on fondly. My family and I have loved our time in the North East and have some wonderful memories to take home with us. I’d like to thank everyone involved with the club for making our time here so enjoyable. We will miss Durham CCC.”Geoff Cook, the head coach said: “Michael has been a prolific run scorer for the club during his time here and is a much respected player, who will be greatly missed. He has proved to be a real inspiration on the field and the knowledge and guidance he has shared with our squad, especially the batsmen, has encouraged growth within the side.”Michael should be incredibly proud of his time here at Durham and we wish him all the very best with his future endeavours.”Prior to his lengthy stay at Durham, Di Venuto, who appeared in nine one-day internationals for Australia, also played for Derbyshire and Sussex

Chris Gayle continues to miss out on West Indies selection and is not part of the 13-man squad for the third ODI against India. Danza Hyatt and Kemar Roach have replaced the rested duo of Dwayne Bravo and Ravi Rampaul

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Jun-2011Chris Gayle continues to miss out on West Indies selection and is not part of the 13-man squad for the third one-dayer against India. Gayle has been out of favour with the West Indies Cricket Board since his controversial radio interview and was not selected for the first two one-dayers. The board has reiterated that since it been unable to meet Gayle, he has again not been considered for selection. The date for the proposed meeting is yet to be finalised.There are two changes to the squad that was selected for the first two ODIs: Dwayne Bravo’s request to be given a break has been granted and Jamaica batsman Danza Hyatt – who played in the only Twenty20 against India – has been selected in his place. The board has also decided to rest fast bowler Ravi Rampaul for the Antigua leg of the series which comprises the third and the fourth ODIs. Kemar Roach has returned to the squad to replace Rampaul.Adrian Barath, the opener, will spend a week working at the Sagicor High Performance Centre undergoing practice in order to be considered for selection for the Test series against India starting on June 20 in Jamaica. Barath has been undergoing rehabilitation after suffering a hamstring injury that caused him to miss the 2011 World Cup.West Indies trail India 0-2 in the five-match series. The third ODI will be played at North Sound in Antigua on June 11.West Indies squad: Darren Sammy (capt), Carlton Baugh (wk), Devendra Bishoo, Darren Bravo, Kirk Edwards, Danza Hyatt, Anthony Martin, Kieron Pollard, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Lendl Simmons.