Tour of India 2013-14                   Captain:  Darren Sammy

66th West Indies Test tour

Eleventh Test-playing tour of India by West Indies

 (October - November 2013)

This tour, not part of the ICC Future Tours Programme, was arranged at a very late stage to provide some international cricket at home in India’s 2013-14 season. It also gave the BCCI opportunities to raise revenue, which otherwise would have been restricted to the one-day series against Australia in October.

The WICB only confirmed the tour on Tuesday 3 September. Sachin Tendulkar announced his impending retirement so Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium was nominated as a fitting venue for his farewell, which was also his 200th Test appearance.

P A G E    I N    P R E P A R A T I O N

Other West Indies tours

Previous tour

Bangladesh 2012-13

Next tour

New Zealand 2013-14

Next tour of India

None scheduled

Members of the Test tour party  (15  +  1)

Opening batsmen:  Chris Gayle, Kieran Powell.

Middle-order batsmen:  Darren Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Marlon Samuels, Narsingh Deonarine, Kirk Edwards,

Wicket-keepers:  Denesh Ramdin, Chadwick Walton

Spin bowlers:  Shane Shillingford Veerasammy Permaul

Fast bowlers:  Tino Best, Darren Sammy, Sheldon Cottrrell, Kemar Roach (replaced by Sheldon Gabriel)

Regional representation:   

B - Barbados (3)

G - Guyana (3)

Ja - Jamaica (4 *)

L - Leeward Islands (1)

T - Trinidad & Tobago (2)

W - Windward Islands (2)

* Chadwick Walton played for Combined Campuses and Colleges

⋄ - central contract  

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(at 15 November 2013)     

     29 yrs  4 months

Test Appearances made before the tour

Chanderpaul 148,  Gayle 97,  Ramdin 51,  Samuels 46,  Sammy 33.  Bravo 23,  Roach 23,  Best 20,  Powell 15, Deonarine 14,  Shillingford 10,  Edwards 9,  Gabriel 3,  Permaul 2,  Walton 2,  Cottrell 0.  

Tour Officials

Selectors

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

Selection

Unavailable:   Kieron Pollard (injured)

Test tour party announced:  4 October 2013.

Not selected :  Shannon Gabriel.

One-day squad named   8 November 2013

Time between selection and departure from West Indies

   15 days

(4 October to 19 October)

Travel

BridgetownQ  Mumbai Q   Kolkata

The team firstly had a one-week session in preparation for the tour at the WICB’s High Performance Centre at Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados. On Saturday 19 October they moved to Orlando, Florida a further training week and flew from Miami on 26 October

After 16 hours flying time, the plane landed at Mumbai on Monday 28 October and flew on to Kolkata in two batches one arriving in the afternoon and the other in the evening.

Johnson Charles, Jason Holder, Sunil Narine, Ravi Rampaul and Lendl Simmons were required for the limited-overs matches abnd flew in ….

Time spent in India  -

   x days

(28 October - 10 December)

On-tour selection

Reinforcements

Kemar Roach had to return to the West Indies with a shoulder injury and Shannon Gabriel was called up

Fixtures/Results

The tour opener was shifted from Cuttack to a suburb of Kolkata owing to constant rain causing a wet pitch.

JUC  :  Jadavpur University Campus ground, Salt Lake, Kolkata  EG :  Eden Gardens

† not first-class

§  one-day international

Time spent in India before First Test:  0 days

( 28 October - 15 November)

Test appearances on tour

3  -   

Match appearances

Highlights

 •    Chris

•     Darren

Tour Summary

Return to West Indies

   Q  London  Q   Bridgetown

From the Test squad  Sivnarine Chanderpaul, Sheldon Cottrell, Kirk Edwards, Shane Shillingford and Chadwick Walton were not included in the ODIs.

Last match 27 November, first Test in New Zealand 3 Dec

Time away from West Indies    x days  

(19 October to arrive home in WI in March)

Finances

Accounts of the tour

Postscript