WI Seeking to Bounce Back From Super-8 Defeat

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Members of the West Indies team travelled to Barbados today from nearby St. Lucia ahead of their second game in the Super 8’s of the ICC T20 World Cup.

The Windies will face the United States at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown on Friday starting at 7.30pm Jamaica time.

Rovman Powell’s team suffered an 8 wicket defeat to champions England in their opening Super 8’s game at the Darren Sammy Stadium last night and must beat the Americans to remain in with a chance at the Semi-finals.

Powell says they haven’t decided if they’ll make any change to the starting eleven from last night’s game for the match against USA.

Rovman Powell.

Meanwhile, Suryakumar Yadav’s half century helped India to a winning start against Afghanistan in the Super-8 of the ICC T20 World Cup at the Kensington Oval in Barbados, today.

Batting first, India’s posted 181 for 8 off 20 overs, with Yadav making 53 off 28 balls.

Hardik Pandya made 32, Virat Kohli 24 and Rishabh Pant 20.

Fazalhaq Farooqi took 3 for 33 and Rashid Khan 3 for 26 for Afghanistan.

In reply, Afghanistan were bowled out for 134.

Azmatullah Omarzai made 28.

Arshdeep Singh and Jasprit Bumrah took three wickets each.

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