Australia and West Indies would be involved in two T20I games before the 2022 T20 World Cup.
The first of them will happen on October 5th at the Carrara Oval in Queensland. Here, we look at the pitch report of Carrara Oval and the weather conditions in Queensland for AUS vs WI 2022.
While Part of West Indies’ T20 World Cup squad arrived in Australia on Saturday. But most of Players that played in the CPL final made the exhausting 35-hour journey from Guyana to the Gold Coast, via New York, Dubai and Brisbane to arrive at the team hotel late on Monday night ahead of their first match of the tour on Wednesday.
Seven of West Indies’ squad were part of the CPL final and Pooran said at the pre-match presentation they would take a call on the XI on match day based on how the players had pulled up from the journey.
“It’s a new generation for us,” Pooran told reporters on the Gold Coast ahead of Wednesday’s first T20I. “The majority of the guys, this is their first World Cup.
West Indies will target to spring a surprise in T20 WC. They are now considered underdogs. Hence, they will be under less pressure at the event. If they can utilize the talent in the squad, they can surely go on to defeat some tough teams. For that, they first need to do well against Australia.
“We’re not coming here as the defending champions anymore” West Indies White ball captian added
“We obviously had a bad World Cup last year. Starting from the bottom, we have to obviously take the harder road first, which is qualifiers and is our number one priority at the moment.
“We understand that we don’t have as much experience in the room,” said Pooran.
“But we have been playing cricket together for the entire year, so we do understand each other a little better now. The culture is just all about love, being a family, actually looking out for each other and being in this together.
“This entire year, we have been through ups and downs. We’ve been all over the world. We’ve been losing cricket games, we have been winning games and we have been we have been performing as a group.” and,
“We have stuck together and we are here today and we’re here to fight again.” he concluded
West Indies tour of Australia: Squads
Australia: Aaron Finch, Sean Abbott, Pat Cummins, Tim David, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Josh Inglis, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Daniel Sams, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Adam Zampa
West Indies: Nicholas Pooran, Rovman Powell, Sharmarh Brooks, Brandon King, Evin Lewis, Kyle Mayers, Yannic Cariah, Jason Holder, Raymon Reifer, Johnson Charles, Sheldon Cottrell, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Obed McCoy, Odean Smith