West Indies cricket team against Afghanistan in the 2019/20 season

The West Indies cricket team's tour against Afghanistan in the 2019/20 season took place in India from November 5th to 29th, 2019 . The international cricket tour was part of the 2019/20 international cricket season and included a test , three One-Day Internationals and three Twenty20s . West Indies won the Test series 1-0 and the ODI series 3-0, while Afghanistan won the Twenty20 series 2-1.

prehistory

Afghanistan previously played a three-nation tournament in Bangladesh , for the West Indies it was the first tour of the season. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 2017 season in the West Indies . Due to a lack of hotel capacity, the decision was made not to hold the tour in Dehradun , where Afghanistan had previously played its home games, but to move to Lucknow .

Stadion

Lucknow

Venue of the tour

The following stadium has been designated as the venue for the tour.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium	Lucknow	50,000	1st test; 1st - 3rd ODI; 1st - 3rd T20

Squad lists

Afghanistan named its roster on October 25, 2019. The West Indies named their ODI roster on October 15, 2019.

test		ODI		Twenty20
Afghanistan	West Indies	Afghanistan	West Indies	Afghanistan	West Indies
Rashid Khan ( K ) Asghar Afghan Qais Ahmad Javed Ahmadi Yamin Ahmadzai Ikram Alikhil ( wk ) Hamza Hotak Ihsanullah Nasir Jamal Karim Janat Zahir Khan Nijat Masood Rahmat Shah Ibrahim Zadran Afsar Zazai	Jason Holder ( K ) Sunil Ambris Kraigg Brathwaite Shamarh Brooks John Campbell Roston Chase Rahkeem Cornwall Shane Dowrich ( wk ) Shimron Hetmyer Shai Hope ( wk ) Alzarri Joseph Keemo Paul Kemar Roach Jomel Warrican	Rashid Khan ( K ) Asghar Afghan Javed Ahmadi Yamin Ahmadzai Ikram Alikhil Sharafuddin Ashraf Karim Janat Mohammad Nabi Gulbadin Naib Rahmat Shah Naveen-ul-Haq Mujeeb Ur Rahman Afsar Zazai ( wk ) Hazratullah Zazai Ibrahim Zadran Najibullah Zadran	Kieron Pollard ( K ) Sunil Ambris Roston Chase Sheldon Cottrell Shimron Hetmyer Jason Holder Shai Hope ( wk ) Alzarri Joseph Brandon King Evin Lewis Keemo Paul Khary Pierre Nicholas Pooran Romario Shepherd Hayden Walsh Jr.	Rashid Khan ( K ) Asghar Afghan Fareed Ahmad Javed Ahmadi Yamin Ahmadzai Sharafuddin Ashraf Rahmanullah Gurbaz Karim Janat Mohammad Nabi Gulbadin Naib Sayed Shirzad Naveen-ul-Haq Mujeeb Ur Rahman Hazratullah Zazai Ibrahim Zadran Najibullah Zadran	Kieron Pollard ( K ) Fabian Allen Sheldon Cottrell Shimron Hetmyer Jason Holder Alzarri Joseph Brandon King Evin Lewis Keemo Paul Khary Pierre Nicholas Pooran Denesh Ramdin Sherfane Rutherford Lendl Simmons Hayden Walsh Jr. Kesrick Williams

Tour matches

November 4th scorecard	Lucknow	West Indians 156 (38.5)	-	Afghanistan 160-6 (34.5)
		Afghanistan wins with 4 wickets

November 20-23 Scorecard	Lucknow	West Indians 168 (59.3) & 297 (75.2)	-	Afghanistan XI 158 (67.1) & 182-3 (54)
		draw

One-day internationals

First ODI in Lucknow

November 6th scorecard	Lucknow	Afghanistan 194 (45.2)	-	West Indies 197-3 (46.3)
		West Indies wins by 7 wickets

Second ODI in Lucknow

November 9 scorecard	Lucknow	West Indies 247-9 (50)	-	Afghanistan 200 (45.4)
		West Indies wins with 47 runs

Third ODI in Lucknow

November 11th scorecard	Lucknow	Afghanistan 249-7 (50)	-	West Indies 253-5 (48.4)
		West Indies wins with 5 wickets

It was the West Indies' first win in an ODI series since they defeated Bangladesh in August 2014 .

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Lucknow

November 14th scorecard	Lucknow	West Indies 164-5 (20)	-	Afghanistan 134-9 (20)
		West indies wins with 30 runs

Second Twenty20 in Lucknow

November 16 scorecard	Lucknow	Afghanistan 147-7 (20)	-	West Indies 106-8 (20)
		Afghanistan wins with 41 runs

Third Twenty20 in Lucknow

November 17th scorecard	Lucknow	Afghanistan 156-8 (20)	-	West Indies 127-7 (20)
		Afghanistan wins in 29 runs

Test in Lucknow

November 27-29 Scorecard	Lucknow	Afghanistan 187 (68.3) & 120 (43.1)	-	West Indies 277 (83.3) & 33-1 (6.2)
		West Indies wins with 9 wickets

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sharad Deep: Afghanistan gear up for Windies in new home Lucknow ( English ) Hindustan Times. October 28, 2019. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
2. ↑ Focus on youth as Afghanistan revamp squads for West Indies series ( English ) Cricinfo. 2019. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
3. ↑ Deivarayan Muthu: Hayden Walsh Jr, Brandon King break into West Indies' ODI, T20I squads ( English ) Cricinfo. 2019. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
4. ↑ Shashank Kishore: Pooran, Chase give West Indies first ODI series win since 2014 ( English ) Cricinfo. November 9, 2019. Retrieved November 30, 2019.