West Indies v United Arab Emirates Preview, MATCH 41, Napier

Jason Holder, the West Indies captain, had no qualms about outlining West Indies’ plan of attack – attack. “Obviously they seem to not like the aggressive stuff,” he said. “It’s in our nature to be aggressive and we just need to be aggressive and play aggressive cricket.”

However aggressive it is and however well it might play, West Indies may still have to walk away without anything to show for it though. The onset of Cyclone Pam means there is a real chance that the game could be washed out – meaning the teams would have to share a point, which wouldn’t be enough to take West Indies through.

UAE hasn’t posed much of a threat to Test-playing nations so far this tournament, but it would desperately want to be the banana peel on which West Indies slip. How the men from the Caribbean deal with pressure would play a huge part in how the match goes, Pam permitting.

Teams (from)
West Indies: Jason Holder (capt), Marlon Samuels, Sulieman Benn, Johnson Charles, Jonathan Carter, Sheldon Cottrell, Chris Gayle, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy, Lendl Simmons, Dwayne Smith, Jerome Taylor, Nikita Miller.

UAE: Mohammad Tauqir (capt), Khurram Khan, Swapnil Patil (wk), Saqlain Haider, Amjad Javed, Shaiman Anwar, Amjad Ali, Nasir Aziz, Rohan Mustafa, Manjula Guruge, Andri Berenger, Fahad Alhashmi, Mohammad Naveed, Kamran Shahzad, Krishna Chandran.