DATE & VENUE: All the games of this T20I series will be played at the Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium at 7:30PM Local Time (5AM IST) in St. Lucia, West Indies.
PREVIEW: On the 10th of July (by IST), West Indies and Australia will go up against each other in the shortest format after a long span of 7 years. These two teams don't play each other often in a bilateral series these days and they tend to face each other mostly during ICC tournaments.
If we see the head to head of these two sides in T20Is, they have faced each other 11 times out of which West Indies came out on top on 6 occasions while Australia were the victorious side on the remaining 5 occasions. Both the teams are arriving to this series on the back of a series defeat. West Indies recently lost 3-2 to South Africa while Australia lost 3-2 to the Kiwis in February.
On one hand, West Indies are going to play with their strongest side which most probably will take the field in the upcoming T20 World Cup and on the other hand there's Australia who will be missing the services of Warner, Smith, Maxwell, Cummins, Stoinis and Jhye Richardson.
The West Indies side has a couple of gamchangers, who can win games on their own on a given day but what West Indies really require is team performance and they just need one or two good games to be back on track as they are the hot favorites to win the T20 World Cup. Coming to Australia's squad, all the players will look to give their best to bolster their chances for the upcoming T20 World Cup as they still don't have their playing XI sorted in this format of the game. West Indies have got their wake-up call in the form of a series loss against South Africa. They will now look to beat this Australian side under the leadership of Kieron Pollard.
PREDICTIONS: Our prediction for this T20I series is 4-1 in favour of Windies.
SQUAD
West Indies Squad: Kieron Pollard (c), Nicholas Pooran (vc), Fabian Allen, Dwayne Bravo, Sheldon Cottrell, Fidel Edwards, Andre Fletcher, Chris Gayle, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Evin Lewis, Obed McCoy, Andre Russell, Lendl Simmons, Kevin Sinclair, Oshane Thomas, Hayden Walsh Jr
Australia Squad: Aaron Finch (c), Ashton Agar, Wes Agar, Jason Behrendorff, Alex Carey, Dan Christian, Josh Hazlewood, Moises Henriques, Mitchell Marsh, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Josh Philippe, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, Ashton Turner, Andrew Tye, Matthew Wade, Adam Zampa.
Travelling Reserves: Nathan Ellis, Tanveer Sangha
PROBABLE XI
Australia: Aaron Finch (C), M Wade (WK), A Carey, M Marsh, M Henriques, D Christian, A Agar, J Hazlewood, M Starc, J Behrendorff, A Zampa
West Indies: L Simmons, E Lewis, C Gayle, S Hetmyer, N Pooran (WK), K Pollard (C), A Russell, DJ Bravo, Akeal Hosain, Obed McCoy, F Edwards
DREAM 11 TEAM
A Finch (C), E Lewis, L Simmons, M Wade, N Pooran, M Henriques, A Russell, DJ Bravo, A Agar, M Starc, A Zampa (VC)
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