After winning the two-match home Test series without facing many fights, India will now take the visitors Windies in the five-match home ODI series, starting on Sunday (October 21).

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On Sunday, India and Windies will play the first ODI of the series in the day/night encounter at Barsapara Cricket Stadium (Guwahati). The hosts have set up a strong ODI side and they are the favourite for the ODI series while the Windies ODI squad is still missing some big names and it can put a huge effect in this series.

Indian cricket team

The Indian batting line-up is very strong and most of them are in the very good forms, especially in the white-ball cricket. However, the Indian skipper Virat Kohli is likely to carry on his search for the perfect no.4 batsman by rotating the batsmen, while India has to be conscious of their middle-order batting.

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The frontline pace bowling attacks Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah have been rested in the first two ODIs, but still, India’s bowling squad is very strong. India has Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav and Khaleel Ahmed in the pace bowling line-up, while they also have Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav in the spin bowling line-up.

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Windies cricket team

Though the experienced Marlon Samuels is in the ODI squad, the other experienced and dependable cricketers like Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard etc are still missing in the squad. The picture has disheartened more after Evin Lewis withdrew his name from the squad due to his personal reason.

It means once again Jason Holder has to lead an inexperienced Windies side against a strong home side. Though some of their players have really good potential to carry the side for a victory from any situations, the team’s motivation doesn’t seem much strong yet. However, the Windies skipper Holder is desperate to change their present condition as soon as possible.

Full squads

India: Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Ambati Rayudu, Manish Pandey, MS Dhoni (wk), Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Khaleel Ahmed, KL Rahul, Umesh Yadav.

Windies: Jason Holder (captain), Fabian Allen, Sunil Ambris, Devendra Bishoo, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Shimron Hetmyer, Shai Hope (wk), Alzarri Joseph, Kieran Powell, Ashley Nurse, Keemo Paul, Rovman Powell, Kemar Roach, Marlon Samuels, Oshane Thomas.

Key Stats Preview:

• In the last 10 ODI encounters between India and Windies (excluding cancelled ODIs), India lost only twice, won seven times and the other one had no results.
• Last time an Indian captain won the toss against Windies in ODI was on October 11, 2014. In last seven ODI encounters between India and Windies (excluding the cancelled ODIs as there were no toss occurred), the Windies’ captains won the toss in every time.
• In their last two home ODI series, India lost their opening matches of those series.
• In their last five ODI series, Windies failed to win their opening matches (four defeats and one no result).