West Indies captain Darren Sammy is banking on replacement players to step-up when the regional side begin their campaign in the World T20 tournament next Tuesday. Carlos Braithwaite, Ashley Nurse and Evin Lewis have been called up after Kieron Pollard, Sunil Narine, Darren Bravo and Lendl Simmons pulled out of the squad. Pollard and Simmons
West Indies arrived here early yesterday from Dubai to begin their final preparations for the Twenty20 World Cup set to bowl off today. The 2012 champions spent the last two weeks in a preparation camp in United Arab Emirates where they also played four unofficial T20 warm-up games – two against Zimbabwe in Sharjah and
West Indies head coach Phil Simmons says his players will use warm-up matches against English County Warwickshire this weekend, to ramp up their fielding arsenal in preparation for the T20 World Cup starting next week in India. West Indies start a two-match series against Warwickshire on Friday at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium after thrashing Zimbabwe