UAE bat, Athanaze debuts as WI ring within the adjustments
Toss: UAE opted to bat vs West Indies
UAE received the toss and opted to take first strike within the third ODI in Sharjah of their quest to avert a 3-0 sweep.
Having already wrapped up the sequence, West Indies made plenty of adjustments, together with resting their designated captain Shai Hope. Allrounder Roston Chase took cost of the facet whereas Johnson Charles was listed as West Indies’ wicketkeeper within the absence of Hope. Opening batter and vice-captain Brandon King was additionally rested, with the highly-rated Alick Athanaze making his worldwide debut for West Indies.
Athanaze was the main run-getter on the Under-19 World Cup in 2018, forward of Shubman Gill. But early in his home profession he was dropped by Windward Islands. That snub fuelled him to work even tougher to turn into one of many mainstays of Windward Islands’ batting and the captain of the staff. In the Super50 Cup, West Indies’ 50-over home match, Athanaze was Windward Islands’ prime scorer, with 292 runs in six innings at a median of 48.66 and strike price of 96.05, and sixth-highest total.
Allrounders Dominic Drakes and Odean Smith made means for Kevin Sinclair and Keemo Paul. Sinclair can be West Indies’ fourth spin-bowling choice alongside Kevem Hodge, Yannic Cariah and stand-in captain Chase.
UAE additionally made a surfeit of adjustments, with Ethan D’Souza and Muhammad Jawadullah making their ODI debuts. D’Souza had represented Team Abu Dhabi within the T10 league final yr whereas Jawadullah had extra just lately performed for Sharjah Warriors within the ILT20. Aryansh Sharma, Asif Khan, Basil Hameed, Sanchit Sharma, Adhitya Shetty and Zahoor Khan all dropped out of the staff.
Legspinner Karthik Meiyappan, although, returned to the XI after leaking 55 runs in 4.2 overs within the sequence opener whereas vice-captain Vriitya Aravind took again the wicketkeeping gloves from Aryansh.
UAE: 1 Muhammad Waseem (capt), 2 Lovepreet Singh, 3 Vriitya Aravind (wk), 4 Rameez Shahzad, 5 Ethan DSouza, 6 Rohan Mustafa, 7 Ali Naseer, 8 Aayan Afzal Khan, 9 Karthik Meiyappan, 10 Junaid Siddique, 11 Mohammad Jawadullah
West Indies: 1 Alick Athanaze, 2 Johnson Charles (wk), 3 Shamarh Brooks, 4 Raymon Reifer, 5 Keacy Carty, 6 Kavem Hodge, 7 Roston Chase (capt), 8 Yannic Cariah, 9 Kevin Sinclair, 10 Akeem Jordan, 11 Keemo Paul