Indian national cricket team in the West Indies in the 1996/97 season

The tour of the Indian national cricket team to the West Indies in the 1996/97 season took place from March 6 to May 3, 1997. The international cricket tour was part of the 1996/97 international cricket season and included five tests and four ODIs . The West Indies won Test Series 1–0 and ODI Series 3–1.

prehistory

The West Indies previously played a tour in Australia , India a tour in Zimbabwe . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in India in the 1994/95 season .

Stages

Bridgetown Kingstown St. John's Port of Spain

Tour venues

Kingston

Tour venues in Jamaica

Georgetown (BCG)

Tour venues

The following stages have been designated as the venue for the tour.

city	country	Stadion	capacity	Games
Bridgetown	Barbados	Kensington oval	11,000	3rd test; 4. ODI
Georgetown	Guyana	Bourda Cricket Ground	25,000	5th test
Kingston	Jamaica	Sabina Park	20,000	1st test
Kingstown	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	Arnos Vale Stadium	18,000	3. ODI
Port of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago	Queen's Park Oval	25,000	2. test; 1st & 2nd ODI
St. John's	Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua Recreation Ground	12,000	4th test

Squad lists

The following squads were named by the teams.

test		ODI
West Indies	India	West Indies	India
Curtly Ambrose Ian Bishop Courtney Browne Sherwin Campbell Shivnarine Chanderpaul Mervyn Dillon Roland Holder Carl Hooper Brian Lara Junior Murray Franklyn Rose Courtney Walsh Stuart Williams	Mohammad Azharuddin Rahul Dravid Dodda Ganesh Sourav Ganguly Ajay Jadeja Sunil Joshi Anil Kumble Abey Kuruvilla VVS Laxman Nayan Mongia Venkatesh Prasad Navjot Sidhu Sachin Tendulkar	Jimmy Adams Curtly Ambrose Ian Bishop Courtney Browne Shivnarine Chanderpaul Ottis Gibson Roland Holder Carl Hooper Brian Lara Franklyn Rose Stuart Williams Courtney Walsh	Mohammad Azharuddin Noel David Rahul Dravid Ajay Jadeja Sourav Ganguly Sunil Joshi Saba Karim Anil Kumble Abey Kuruvilla Nayan Mongia Venkatesh Prasad Navjot Sidhu Robin Singh Sachin Tendulkar

Testing

First test in Kingston

March 6-10 scorecard	Kingston	West Indies 427 (137.4) & 241 (66)	-	India 346-4 (146.5) & 99-2 (48)
		draw

Second test in Port of Spain

March 14-18 Scorecard	Port of Spain	West Indies 296 (114.3) & 299-6 (131)	-	India 436 (183.4)
		draw

Third test in Bridgetown

March 27 - 31 scorecard	Bridgetown	West Indies 298 (98.4) & 140 (45)	-	India 319 (106) & 81 (35.5)
		West Indies wins with 38 runs

Fourth test in St. John's

April 4-8 Scorecard	St. John's	West Indies 333 (110.4)	-	India 212-2 (69)
		draw

Fifth test in Georgetown

June 22-26 scorecard	Georgetown	India 355 (168.3)	-	West Indies 145-3 (30)
		draw

One-day internationals

First ODI in Port of Spain

April 26 scorecard	Port of Spain	India 179 (48.3 / 49)	-	West Indies 149-2 (27.5 / 33)
		West Indies wins by 8 wickets

Second ODI in Port of Spain

April 27 scorecard	Port of Spain	West Indies 121 (43.5 / 46)	-	India 116-0 (23.1 / 40)
		India wins with 10 wickets

Third ODI in Kingstown

April 30th scorecard	Kingstown	West Indies 249-9 (50)	-	India 231 (48.2)
		West Indies wins with 18 runs

Fourth ODI in Bridgetown

May 3rd scorecard	Bridgetown	India 199-7 (50)	-	West Indies 200-0 (44.4)
		West Indies wins with 10 wickets

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo