India rebuilding, Windies rebooting

Sunil Gavaskar has been immortalized in song for his exploits against the West Indies.

India has decided that enough is enough.

They are looking to rebuild.

This much is evident in the squads chosen for this current tour of the West Indies where a number of fresh new faces are on the respective teams.

Batsmen Shreyas Iyer and Manish Pandey, pacers Deepak Chahar and Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed and spinners Washington Sundar and Rahul Chahar (Deepak’s cousin) are undertaking their first tour of the Caribbean, the latter two are in the T20 side which has nine new faces from the team which played its last T20 against Australia earlier this year and which has won the three match series against the hosts.

Shikkar Dawan, Ravichandran Ashwin and Wriddiman Saha, (back up wicketkeeper) have returned to the team while Mahendra Singh Dhoni misses the tour for military reasons.