{"id":10205,"date":"2016-07-07T07:36:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T07:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=10205"},"modified":"2016-07-07T07:36:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T07:36:53","slug":"team-india-reach-west-indies-for-the-four-match-test-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/team-india-reach-west-indies-for-the-four-match-test-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Team India reach West Indies for the Four-match Test series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/anil-kumble-pujara-0707.jpg\" alt=\"Board of Control for Cricket in India, West Indies Cricket Board, India's Tour of West Indies 2016, West Indies vs India, WICB, BCCI, WIvsIND, Virat Kohli, Jason Holder, Murali Vijay, Kohli, Rahane, Darren Bravo, Samuels, Ramdin, Ishant, Umesh, Ashwin, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, Kemar Roach, Phil Simmons, Anil Kumble, Sanjay Banger, Abhay Sharma\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Virat Kohli led Indian Cricket team\u00a0reached St Kitts to lock horns with the West Indies in a four-Test bilateral series,\u00a0starting with the opening Test at Antigua on July 21.<\/p>\n<p>West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) official Twitter account (@westindies) shared a picture of the Indian team after they reached St.Kitts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">India led by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/imVkohli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@imVkohli<\/a> arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/StKitts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StKitts<\/a> to prepare for the 4 Tests in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Antigua?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Antigua<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Jamaica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jamaica<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/StLucia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StLucia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Trinidad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Trinidad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/frC4AnGd0V\">pic.twitter.com\/frC4AnGd0V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Windies Cricket (@windiescricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/windiescricket\/status\/750820993296314368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s newly appointed head coach Anil Kumble also \u00a0posted a photograph of the team from his Twitter handle and wrote<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reached St. Kitts&#8230;long flight..<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cheteshwar1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cheteshwar1<\/a> @klrahul11 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/y_umesh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@y_umesh<\/a> Tour begins <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BCCI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BCCI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l2aEpOFSqp\">pic.twitter.com\/l2aEpOFSqp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anil Kumble (@anilkumble1074) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anilkumble1074\/status\/750795906375569408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>India and West Indies are scheduled to play four Test matches , starting from July 21 at Antigua, in what would be Kumble&#8217;s first assignment as the chief coach of the team and Virat Kohli&#8217;s first tour to the Caribbean as a Test captain.<\/p>\n<p>India will play a couple of warm-up matches against West Indies Cricket Board President&#8217;s XI on July 9-10 and July 14-16 at Warner Park, Basseterre here.<\/p>\n<p>The series comprises four Tests starting with the opening match at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua from July 21 to 25, followed by 2nd Test at Kingston from July 30 to Aug 3, 3rd Test at Gros Islet from Aug 9 to 13 and fourth Test at Trinidad on Aug 18 to 22<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli led Indian Cricket team\u00a0reached St Kitts to lock horns with the West Indies in a four-Test bilateral series,\u00a0starting with the opening Test at Antigua on July 21. West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) official Twitter account (@westindies) shared a picture of the Indian team after they reached St.Kitts. India led by @imVkohli arrived in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":10206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,8,170,140],"tags":[1000,152,10,114,1337,1249,1258,1259,408,118,232,1356,409,765],"class_list":["post-10205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-anil-kumble","tag-bcci","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-indias-tour-of-west-indies-2016","tag-jason-holder","tag-phil-simmons","tag-sanjay-banger","tag-sports","tag-virat-kohli","tag-west-indies","tag-west-indies-vs-india","tag-wicb","tag-wivsind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10207,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions\/10207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}