{"id":6891,"date":"2023-07-18T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=335335"},"modified":"2023-07-18T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T12:08:00","slug":"west-indies-overhauls-squad-for-second-test-against-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/west-indies-overhauls-squad-for-second-test-against-india\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies overhauls squad for second test against India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Indies cricket team, following their loss in the first Test against India, has undergone significant changes in their squad for the second Test in Port of Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Despite concerns over his absence due to illness during the previous Test, spinner Rahkeem Cornwall has been retained in the squad. His three-session break allowed India to amass over 420 runs, contributing to West Indies\u2019 disappointing performance.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the team\u2019s lackluster batting in the previous game, the West Indies management decided to replace No. 3 batter Raymon Reifer, who scored only 2 and 11 runs. However, Reifer will still be traveling with the team to Trinidad as injury cover.<\/p>\n<p>To strengthen their lineup, West Indies introduced off-spinning all-rounder Kevin Sinclair, known for his impressive record of 11 wickets from seven One-Day Internationals and solid First-Class averages of 29 with the bat and 23.98 with the ball from 18 matches.The much-anticipated second Test, marking the 100th encounter between the two teams, is set to commence on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fact-box\">\n<p class=\"main-title\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>West Indies squad for second Test<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fact-element\"><strong>Kraigg Brathwaite (captain), Alick Athanaze, Jermaine Blackwood, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Rahkeem Cornwall, Joshua Da Silva, Shannon Gabriel, Jason Holder, Alzarri Joseph, Kirk McKenzie, Kemar Roach, Kevin Sinclair, Jomel Warrican.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"articleContainer\" class=\"article-standard_piano-inline-2 articleblock-container\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Indies cricket team, following their loss in the first Test against India, has undergone significant changes in their squad\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":29799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-6891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-west-indies"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}