Captains struggling with Injury - Windies vs England Preview

Providence Stadium, Guyana

Team News

• Strauss has declared himself fit after a minor hamstring problem
  
• Andrew Flintoff hasn't yet recovered from his hip injury
  
• Steven Davies will get another chance to open alongside Ravi Bopara
• Gayle will have a last-minute fitness test
  
• Off spinner Miller has been recalled to the squad after a strong domestic season
  

West Indies (Likely) 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Devon Smith, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 5 Kieron Pollard, 6 Lendl Simmons, 7 Dwayne Bravo, 8 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 9 Darren Sammy, 10 Jerome Taylor, 11 Fidel Edwards

England (Likely) 1 Ravi Bopara, 2 Steven Davies (wk), 3 Kevin Pietersen, 4 Owais Shah, 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Andrew Strauss (capt), 7 Dimitri Mascarenhas, 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Gareth Batty, 10 Amjad Khan, 11 James Anderson

Pitch and conditions

• A match for the medium pacers and spinners
• chance of rain pretty much at any time
  

Stats & Trivia

• West Indies have played one ODI at Providence, against Sri Lanka, when they were beaten by 113 runs