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West Indies arrive for their Pak tour

By CricketFundas
for CricketFundas.com

Published: November 7, 2006

Related Link : West Indies in Pakistan 06-07

Brian Lara’s West Indies have entered the Pakistan soil after a long gap of nine years to play a series of Three Test Matches followed by Five One Day Internationals. A 15-man Test Squad has arrived in Lahore on Monday night. West Indies and Pakistan had last played a bilateral Test Series in 2004-05 in the Caribbean with the 3-Tests drawn 1-1.The last home series for Pakistan against West Indies was in 2001-02 but was unfortunately played in Sharjah due to security fears following the September 11 attacks. Pakistan had a clean sweep in that series with a 2-0 win.

From the Champions Trophy squad that had lost to Australia in the finals, five players have missed out in making it to the squad that includes Wavell Hinds, Marlon Samuels, Dwayne Smith, Carlton Baugh and interestingly Ian Bradshaw. Two spinners have been added in the form of chinaman bowler Dave Mohammed and the tall off spinner Omari Banks. Denesh Ramdin retained his Test spot as the wicket keeper while Daren Powell has been added to strengthen the bowling fire power. Lendl Simmons is the only new face in the team. He is a 21-year-old opening batsman who hails from Trinidad and is the nephew of former West Indies Test cricketer and former Zimbabwean Coach Phil Simmons.

West Indies open their tour with a two-day warm up game against Patron’s XI at the Bagh-e-Jinnah ground in Lahore. The homeside is being led by Test Discard Asim Kamal.

West Indies Test Squad : Brian Lara (Captain), Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chris Gayle, Daren Ganga, Lendl Simmons, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Runako Morton, Dwayne Bravo, Denesh Ramdin (Wicket keeper), Corey Collymore, Fidel Edwards, Daren Powell, Jerome Taylor, Omari Banks, Dave Mohammed