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Picture Credit: BCCI

The Indian T20 squad for the West Indies have arrived in Trinidad for the upcoming five-game T20I series. The BCCI posted a video of the team entering the hotel lobby after their long journey from India to Dubai and then to Trinidad. The clip includes the captain of the squad Rohit Sharma along with veteran batter Dinesh Karthik and Rishabh Pant.

Another bus brought in the bowlers of the team Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Kuldeep Yadav. These players were greeted by a few members of the coaching staff and West Indies batter Rovman Powell who interacted with his Delhi Capitals teammate Kuldeep. 

The T20I series will kicks off at the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba, Trinidad on 29 July, followed by the next two games at Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts. The last two games of the tour will be played in the USA at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground in Lauderhill, Florida. 

India enters this tour after a dominant T20 performance in England where they registered a 2-1 win. The Men in Blue won the first game by 50 runs and replicated similar success in the next game with a 49-run victory. The Indian team failed to whitewash England as they suffered a 17-run in the third T20I.

India squad for T20I series:

Rohit Sharma (C), Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishan Kishan, KL Rahul, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh