Fantasy: Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan key to your team's success

Fantasy

Venue:  Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Average first innings score in last three years: 201

29% of the games have been won by team batting first

Pacers have picked 54.55% of the wickets to fall here. Spinners have picked 45.45% of the wickets.

*all data from last 3 years

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Top Run scorers at this venue

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Top wicket takers at this venue

The above graphic tells you the top bowlers at the venue in the past three years. Click here to check the full list categorized on different parameters - wickets taken, bowling average, bowling economy etc.

Grand League Punts

Seeing what Kuldeep Yadav did in the first ODI, it could be a good idea for India to give another wrist spinner Yuzvendra Chahal a go. Chahal has picked up 24 wickets - fourth highest for India - at an economy rate of 5.53 in ODIs since 2022. Like Kuldeep, he too could very well bamboozle the West Indies batters with his googlies which they have struggled to pick.

It was surprising to see fast bowler Alzarri Joseph miss out in the first game. With 41 since 2022 at an economy rate of 4.92, he is West Indies' second-highest wicket-taker. A genuine wicket-taker, expect Joseph to ruffle a few feathers and get those vital wickets at the start and the end.

A case for Jaydev Unadkat to be included perhaps? In ODIs since 2022, West Indies have the worst run-rate (5) after Afghanistan (4.7), Worst balls per wicket (23.2) after Afghanistan (23.1) and the worst balls per wicket ratio (27.6) after Bangladesh (24.8) against left-arm pacers, among full-member nations.

Probable XIs

West Indies: Kyle Mayers, Brandon King, Alick Athanaze, Shai Hope (c & wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Romario Shepherd, Yannic Cariah, Dominic Drakes, Jayden Seales, Gudakesh Motie

India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Umran Malik, Mukesh Kumar