A lot of cricket fans were not happy to see the BCCI send what was essentially a B-team to the West Indies. The India team were set to play an ODI series (3 matches) and a T20 series (5 matches) against the Calypso Kings.
Top Players Rested For WI Series
The BCCI usually rests a couple of senior players from certain tours but for the WI tour, they decided to rest all of their senior players. Skipper R Sharma, J Bumrah, V Kohli, M Shami, R Pant, H Pandya and B Kumar were all omitted from the West Indies series.
S Dhawan was the senior most player in the squad and took on the captaincy role. The BCCI packed the squad with a number of talented young players and they delivered in the ODI series to help India sweep the series 3-0.
S Gill Wins Man of the Series Award
While the team as a whole put in a good performance, it was youngster Shubman Gill who stole the show and ended up with the man of the match award. Gill finished with 205 runs in the series which included an unbeaten 98 in the third ODI.
