IND vs WI Series 2022 – Thrilling Cricket Soon

IND vs WI Series 2022 is scheduled to be held in India starting 06th Feb. 2022. The West Indies tour of India will consist of 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is. 

Considering the current Covid (Omicron) wave and sprut in cases the series will be played in bio-bubble and it may be that no spectators are allowed in the stadiums.

Moreover, BCCI has decided that the ODIs will now be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad and three T20Is will be held at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Detailed are the Schedule, Records, Squad, and Streaming for the Series. 

IND vs WI Live Score

The live match scorecard can be checked at Leisuretym Sports

India vs West Indies 2022 Schedule

India vs West Indies Head to Head

Before the ODIs trend, India and West Indies have been contesting each other in Test matches since 1948, they have a long and rich history of series played.

Till now they have faced each other in 98 matches where WI have dominated with 30 wins and India managed to win 22 times, 46 matches were drawn. 

ODIs

India and West Indies played their first ODI in the Prudential World Cup at Edgbaston, Birmingham on Jun 9, 1979, and West Indies won the match by 9 wickets.

Since then West Indies have faced each other in 133 ODIs and the stats are highly even-steven. India has won on 64 occasions (48%) whereas West Indies made it on 63 occasions (47%). Two matches were drawn and 4 were with no result. 

In 2019, the two teams played a series of 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is in India. The ODI series was won by India by 2-1. 

T20Is

India played their first T20I against West Indies on Jun 12, 2009, in ICC World Twenty20 2009 at Lord’s, London where West Indies Won by 7-wickets.

Since then both have played 17 T20Is against each other and India has won a percentage of 59% whereas WI has 41% wins. 

Indian Squad

After the loss of the India and South Africa ODI series by 3-0, changes have been made to the Indian squad.

Rohit Sharma has been declared fit and will lead the team against Windies in ODIs and T20Is. Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami have been rested from the series. 

KL Rahul will be available from the 2nd ODI onwards. Whereas Ravindra Jadeja is undergoing his final stage of recovery post his knee injury and will not be available for the ODIs and T20Is. However, Axar Patel will be available in the T20Is.

Kuldeep Yadav in for ODIs, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar and Avesh Khan in for ODIs and T20Is.

India ODI Squad: Rohit Sharma (Capt), KL Rahul (vc), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shikhar, Virat Kohli, Surya Kumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wk), D Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Y Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohd. Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan

India T20 Squad: Rohit Sharma(Capt), KL Rahul (vc), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Surya Kumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Mohd. Siraj, Bhuvneshwar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel

West Indies Squad 

West Indies is going to visit England and is scheduled to play 5 T20Is, the final team will be declared then. However, the probable are:  

West Indies ODI squad: Kieron Pollard (C), Fabian Allen, Nkrumah Bonner, Darren, Bravo, Shamarh Brooks, Jason Holder, Shai Hope, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Brandon King, Nicholas Pooran, Kemar Roach, Romario Shepherd, Odean Smith, Hayden Walsh Jr.

West Indies T20I squad: Kieron Pollard (captain), Nicholas Pooran (vice-captain), Fabian Allen, Darren Bravo, Roston Chase, Sheldon Cottrell, Dominic Drakes, Jason Holder, Shai Hope, Akeal Hosein, Brandon King, Rovman Powell, Romario Shepherd, Odean Smith, Kyle Mayers, Hayden Walsh Jr. 

IND vs SA Telecast and Live Streaming

The test and ODI series will be available live on STAR Sports networks whereas Live streaming will be available on Disney+ Hotstar.

The Recent Turbulence –  Rohit vs Virat

After the series defeat against South Africa Virat stepped down as Test captain. Only last month, Virat was removed as ODI captain. He also stepped down from the T20I captaincy after the 2021 T20 World Cup last November.

Keeping an eye on ICC ODI world cup 2022, BCCI named Rohit Sharma as the new white-ball skipper.

Rohit, who was also named the vice-captain for the Test series in South Africa, sustained a left hamstring injury and had to pull out just prior to the team’s departure for the tour. 

As per BCCI Rohit Sharma is recovering well from injury and hope to make a comeback for the six-match home limited-overs series against the West Indies. 

With this speculations are high for who would captain the test team for the home test series against Sri Lanka. Rohit, Rahul, Bumrah, and Rishabh are the main contenders. 

Now because Rohit is taking over the white ball captaincy, let’s do a peep through Rohit vs Virat’s cricketing careers so far. 

In Test matches Virat as batsmen seem to have an edge over Rohit, he has a better batting average and more experience. 

Similar is the case for ODIs, Virat is better placed in terms of batting average and strike rate. 

In the T20 tournament, Virat is still better in terms of batting average but Rohit performs better with a total number of centuries. 

As a batsman, Virat is much more experienced, better placed, and consistent. However, it needs to be seen how Rohit will perform as Captain vis a vis Virat as Captain.