Three matches set for Guyana as West Indies host Pakistan

Jan 12, 2017 Sports, http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....ndies-host-pakistan/

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies and Pakistan Cricket Boards have agreed to play three Tests, three One-Day-Internationals and two Twenty20 matches in the Caribbean from Monday, March 27 to Monday, May 15.

The series is scheduled to start in the twin-island of Trinidad and Tobago and end in Dominica. The Twenty20 matches are scheduled for TT; the three ODIs in Guyana, then the teams will then travel to Jamaica, Barbados and Dominica for each of the Test matches.

Manager of Operations, WICB, Roland Holder thinks this series will offer the home team an additional opportunity in the busy cricket year “to improve its ranking. Any series against Pakistan always poses an interesting contest for the West Indies.”

Schedule
Friday, March 31          1st T20          Queen’s Park Oval
·    Sunday, April 2          2nd T20          Queen’s Park Oval
·    Friday, April 7          1st ODI          Guyana National Stadium
·    Sunday, April 9          2nd ODI          Guyana National Stadium
·    Tuesday, April 11          3rd ODI          Guyana National Stadium
·    Saturday, April 15          3-Day Match          Trelawny Stadium
·    Friday, April 22          1st Test          Sabina Park
·    Sunday April 30          2nd Test          Kensington Oval
·    Wednesday, May 10          3rd Test          Windsor Park

Both teams met in a three-test series in Dubai last October, Pakistan won that series 2-1.