Tour of Bangladesh & India 2011-12               Captain:  Darren Sammy

64th official Test tour

Second Test-playing tour of Bangladesh by West Indies

Tenth Test-playing tour of India by West Indies

  (October -  November 2011)

West Indies won a Test series away from home for the first time in ten years

Other West Indies tours

Previous tour

Sri Lanka 2010-11

Next tour

England 2012

Next tour of Bangladesh

2012-13

Members of the Test tour party (15 + 1)

Openers  Kraigg Brathwaite Kieran Powell, Adrian Barath (replaced by Lendl Simmons)

Batsmen:  Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Shiv Chanderpaul, Kirk Edwards

Wicket-keepers: Carlton Baugh, Denesh Ramdin

Spin bowlers:  Shane Shillingford, Devendra Bishoo.

Fast bowlers:  Fidel Edwards, Kemar Roach, Ravi Rampaul, Darren Sammy.

Regional representation 

B - Barbados (4)

G - Guyana (2)

Ja - Jamaica (2)

L - Leeward Islands (1)

T - Trinidad & Tobago (4)

W - Windward Islands (2)

(*)  - central contract  (8)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match  (at 21 October 2011)     

     26 yrs  4 months

ODI  Member of squad for one-day internationals in Bangladesh (B) and India (In)

Test Appearances made before the tour

Chanderpaul 133,  F Edwards 46,  Ramdin 42,  Samuels 32,  Sammy 16,  Baugh 13,  Roach 12,  Rampaul 10,  Bravo 8,  Barath 7,  Simmons 7,  Bishoo 5,  Shillingford 5,  Brathwaite 1,  K Edwards 1, Powell  1.

Team Management Officials

On 3 March 2012 David Williams was replaced by Toby Radford as the West Indies senior team assistant coach, so why was Springer on this tour? Williams served for 4½ years and held the post on a tour by tour basis.

Selectors

Clyde Butts (chairman),  Courtney Browne,  Robert Haynes.

Selection

Not considered:  Chris Gayle refused to apologise to coach Ottis Gibson for statements made during a radio interview.

Unavailable:   Ramnaresh Sarwan and Jerome Taylor.

Test tour party announced:  23 September 2011

Not selected :  Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Sulieman Benn.

One-day squad named   23 September 2011.

Darren Sammy (c),  Adrian Barath,  Devendra Bishoo, Carlos Brathwaite,  Darren Bravo, Danza Hyatt, Anthony Martin, Kieron Pollard, Kieran Powell, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels,  Lendl Simmons.

West Indies squad for Tests in India named: 1 November   For ODIs in India named  16 November 2011.

 The one-day series of five matches in India was not agreed until mid-October.

Darren Sammy (c), Adrian Barath, Darren Bravo, Danza Hyatt, Anthony Martin, Jason Mohammed, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Kieran Powell, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons.

Time between selection and departure from West Indies

  -  days

(23 September to 19 September)

Travel to Bangladesh

BridgetownQ  London Q   Dubai

Q   Dhakas 

The West Indian players took part in an intensive week-long preparation camp at the High Performance Centre in Barbados before the following team flew out of Grantley Adams Airport, Barbados, on 19 September for the short T20 series against England :

Darren Sammy (captain), Christopher Barnwell, Miles Bascombe, Devendra Bishoo, Nkrumah Bonner, Johnson Charles, Derwin Christian (wicketkeeper), Fidel Edwards, Danza Hyatt, Garey Mathurin (replacing Ashley Nurse for fitness reasons), Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Krishmar Santokie, Dwayne Smith.

The Sagicor High Performance Centre team had also left Barbados for Dubai on 19 September, including Kieran Powell.

Most of the players on the England trip then returned to the Caribbean, but Sammy, Samuels, Bishoo, Fidel Edwards, Hyatt and Russell left London on 26 September for Dubai, where they met up with other players. Nkrumah Bonner, a member of the West Indies T20 squad to England, flew with them to join the Sagicor HPC squad in Dubai. There was a week-long training camp training camp at the ICC Global Cricket Academy in Dubai, including three practice matches.

Sammy and the rest of the West Indies side (minus five players taking part in the Champions League Twenty20 with Trinidad & Tobago) arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, on Tuesday 4 October.

For the one-day series in India, D P Hyatt, A Martin, J N Mohammad, S P Narine, K A Pollard, A D Russell and L M P Simmons came in.

Time spent in Bangladesh

   30 days

(4 October - 3 November)

Time spent in India

   x days

(3 November -  x December)

Travel to India

DhakaQ  ?

West Indies left Bangladesh on 3 November 2011 and travelled directly to India.

On-tour selection

Reinforcements

Lendl Simmons was not originally named in the Test party but was kept on when Adrian Barath was injured during the first one-day international against Bangladesh

Fixtures/Results

� not first-class

§  one-day international

⊕  Twenty20 international

Time spent in Bangladesh before First Test:  17 days

(4 October - 21 October)

Test appearances on tour

5  -   Baugh,  Bishoo,  Brathwaite,  Bravo,  F Edwards,  K Edwards,  Sammy,  Samuels

4  -   Chanderpaul

3  -   Powell,  Rampaul

2  -   Barath,  Roach

1  -   Simmons

0  -   Ramdin,  Shillingford.

Match appearances

Highlights

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•     Devendra Bishoo took five-for for the first time in Test cricket in Mirpur

Tour Summary

Return to West Indies

Mumbai Q  London Q   ?

Baugh, Bishoo, Brathwaite, Chanderpaul, F H Edwards and Shillingford went home after the Test series in India

The tour ended on December 12th.

Time away from West Indies    x days  

(19 September to arrive home in WI, December)

Finances