In the 16th match of Super 8 Group E T20 World Cup 2009, Champions, India is going to have a real challenge against West Indies today at Lord's, London starting from 4:30 GMT, 10.00 PM IST in their super eight league The defending champions India did not have much of a difficulty till now in the tournament. So it wont be a easy walk in the park for India beating tough competitors like West Indies who have earlier defeated Australia in the opening game before losing out to Sri Lanka by 15 runs in their last match. The strength of Indian batting lineup is their middle order including Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina and Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni as well as two all rounders Yousuf Pathan and Irfan Pathan. Pragyan Ojha who is the leading wicket taker is doing a pretty good job in the spin department.
West Indies got an excellent opener in Andre Fletcher. The hard hitter Captain Chris Gayle is the only batsman who has a century in twenty20 international played a terrific inning against Australia. All-rounder Dwayne Bravo played very well against Sri Lanka. West Indies has a balanced team with hard hitting batsmen and quality pacers like Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards and Lendl Simmons who took four wickets against Sri Lanka giving only 19 runs in 3 overs.
India Playing 11 for Today Match
MS Dhoni(C/W), G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, RA Jadeja, Z Khan, P Kumar, PP Ojha, IK Pathan, YK Pathan, SK Raina, V Sehwag, I Sharma, RG Sharma, RP Singh, Yuvraj Singh
West Indies Playing 11 for Today Match
Chris Gayle (C), Ramnaresh Sarwan, David Bernard, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Fidel Edwards, Xavier Marshall, Denesh Ramdin (W), Lionel Baker, Sulieman Benn, Jerome Taylor
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