IND vs WI 1st ODI, Weather Forecast, Pitch Report: Know weather conditions and pitch report before India-West Indies ODI match

The team of India and West Indies is ready to play the first match of the ODI series. The first match of the three-match series will be played at Queen’s Park in Port of Spain. India has earlier defeated world champions England in the ODI series at their home. Because of this, the team is in high spirits. On the other hand, West Indies have suffered a humiliating defeat against Bangladesh. He will also have to raise the level of his game a lot to compete with India.

Before the West Indies match, Indian bowlers and batsmen practiced indoors under the captaincy of veteran Shikhar Dhawan. Major players like regular captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami have been rested from this series. With this, youngsters like Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sanju Samson, Ishaan Kishan will have a big chance to prove themselves in this format.

How will the weather of Port of Spain be

There is no good news coming from the weather regarding the first ODI match between India and West Indies. Due to rain, the Indian cricket team did indoor practice before this match. At the same time, the sky will remain cloudy during the match and the maximum temperature is expected to be around 30 degrees while the probability of rain is 70 percent. Although the sky is expected to be cloudy with the wind blowing strong, which will definitely give relief to the players from the humidity.

pitch report

No big prediction can be made about this first pitch to be played between the two teams. Because not a single international match has been played here after 2019. Although there is good bounce on the pitch here, apart from this the spin bowlers also get help from the pitch. The average score on this ground is around 270-280.

At the same time, due to the humidity in the weather, there is a lot of hope of getting help to the fast bowlers in the beginning. India has won 8 of their last 9 matches at this ground at the Queen’s Park Oval. One match was washed out in rain.

This type of playing XI can be

The captaincy responsibility has now been handed over to opener Shikhar Dhawan, who will be the seventh captain to lead India this year when they take the field for the first ODI. Despite missing so many key players, the visitors led by Dhawan will come up as the favorites against a struggling West Indies side.

India have a slew of options to choose from in their bowling attack against a poor West Indies batting line-up. In ODIs, vice-captain Ravindra Jadeja is likely to team up with leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal in the spin department.