West Indies Cricket News February-April 2006

Jeff Crowe is referee for India-Windies series

Jeff Crowe will be the match referee during India's tour of West Indies, while Elite panel umpires Rudi Koertzen, Simon Taufel and Asad Rauf will stand along with officials chosen by the host cricket board in the five ODIs and four Tests between the two sides starting May 18...

No changes in Indian one-day team for WI tour

An unfit Sachin Tendulkar was left out, a struggling Mohammad Kaif retained and Sourav Ganguly was again ignored by national selectors on Thursday when they announced a 15-member Indian one-day squad that will tour the West Indies next month.
As many as nine members of the team will be visiting the Caribbeans for the first time. Only captain Rahul Dravid, Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Ajit Agarkar and Virender Sehwag have been there before.
India will play five one-day internationals and four Tests in West Indies. 15-member Indian squad: Rahul Dravid (Captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Suresh Raina, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Irfan Pathan, Venugopala Rao, Munaf Patel, S Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh, Ajit Agarkar, Ramesh Powar, Rudra Pratap Singh.

India want shorter Caribbean tour

India have asked the West Indies to reduce their Test series in the Caribbean from four games to three.
India are due to arrive on 15 May and will play five one-dayers before the first Test in Antigua on 1 June.
"We've requested the West Indies Cricket Board to drop one Test from the itinerary," said Shashank Manohar, head of the board's fixture committee.
But WICB boss Roger Brathwaite said: "We have put all systems in place. It's extremely difficult to make changes."
Brathwaite said he had not received any information from the Indian authorities about a request for a change.
"I'm hearing about it for the first time. Last year we sent them an itinerary and asked if they had any request for adjustments that they be communicated to us in writing," he said.
"We did not receive any request and we went ahead and published the information that we had."
After the Antigua opener, further Tests are scheduled to take place in St Lucia, St Kitts and Jamaica.
Manohar, a vice-president of the BCCI, also revealed that India will play in a triangular series in Sri Lanka in August, with South Africa the third team.

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