Toss UAE chose to bat vs West Indies
UAE won the toss and chose to bat against West Indies in the first ODI series, in Sharjah on a hot Sunday afternoon. Captain Muhammad Waseem said at the toss that he felt it would be easy to put up a total.
West Indies had two debutants: spin-bowling allrounderKavem Hodge and fast-bowling allrounder Dominic Drakes. Drakes has played ten T20Is for West Indies and comes with an experience of 25 List-A games. Hodge is relatively more experienced, having featured in 47 List-A matches.
For UAE, 19-year-old left-hand batter Ali Naseer made his ODI debut.
This is West Indies’ first outing under new white-ball coach Daren Sammy.
UAE: 1 Muhammad Waseem (capt), 2 Aryansh Sharma (wk), 3 Vriitya Aravind, 4 Rameez Shahzad, 5 Asif Khan, 6 Rohan Mustafa, 7 Ali Naseer, 8 Aayan Afzal Khan, 9 Karthik Meiyappan, 10 Junaid Siddique, 11 Zahoor Khan
West Indies: 1 Johnson Charles, 2 Brandon King, 3 Shamarh Brooks, 4 Shai Hope (capt, wk), 5 Keacy Carty, 6 Kavem Hodge, 7 Roston Chase, 8 Keemo Paul, 9 Yannic Cariah, 9 Odean Smith, 11 Dominic Drakes
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