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ICC World Cup Group D Game 1 - West Indies vs Pakistan at Kingston
The first match is upon us.
Should be one of the better ones in the first round too.
Both teams will feel they have something to prove.
Pakistan has a lot of players missing and will want to win without them, while the West Indies surely have high hopes about winning this whole thing, and they'll certainly want to get started on the right foot.
cricinfo preview:
Expect another World Cup classic
expected line-ups, from that preview:
West Indies (likely) 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Brian Lara (capt), 5 Marlon Samuels, 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Dwayne Smith, 8 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 9 Ian Bradshaw, 10 Jerome Taylor, 11 Corey Collymore.
Pakistan (likely) 1 Mohammad Hafeez, 2 Imran Nazir, 3 Younis Khan, 4 Mohammad Yousuf, 5 Inzamam-ul-Haq (capt), 6 Shoaib Malik, 7 Kamran Akmal (wk), 8 Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, 9 Yasir Arafat, 10 Mohammad Sami, 11 Umar Gul.
The first match is upon us.
Should be one of the better ones in the first round too.
Both teams will feel they have something to prove.
Pakistan has a lot of players missing and will want to win without them, while the West Indies surely have high hopes about winning this whole thing, and they'll certainly want to get started on the right foot.
cricinfo preview:
Expect another World Cup classic
expected line-ups, from that preview:
West Indies (likely) 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Brian Lara (capt), 5 Marlon Samuels, 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Dwayne Smith, 8 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 9 Ian Bradshaw, 10 Jerome Taylor, 11 Corey Collymore.
Pakistan (likely) 1 Mohammad Hafeez, 2 Imran Nazir, 3 Younis Khan, 4 Mohammad Yousuf, 5 Inzamam-ul-Haq (capt), 6 Shoaib Malik, 7 Kamran Akmal (wk), 8 Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, 9 Yasir Arafat, 10 Mohammad Sami, 11 Umar Gul.