Heavy showers over the last two days ensured that the first one-day international between West Indies and India was a non-starter. The umpires called off play about half an hour before the match was scheduled to begin. Though the rains had eased off to a drizzle this morning, there were still pools of water on the outfield. Both umpires confirmed that the pitch was bone dry, but the worrying area was the square around the pitch. Eddie Nichols stated that the ground would need sunlight for most of today to allow play to start on time tomorrow, but with more showers forecast over the next 24 hours, a shortened game seemed the best one could hope for on Sunday.

Squads
West Indies Carl Hooper (capt), Chris Gayle, Wavell Hinds, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Brian Lara, Shivranrine Chanderpaul, Ridley Jacobs (wk), Mervyn Dillon, Cameron Cuffy, Pedro Collins, Corey Collymore, Gareth Breese, Ryan Hinds.

India Sourav Ganguly (capt), Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid (wk), Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Mongia, Venkatsai Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Ajay Ratra (wk), Ajit Agarkar, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Tinu Yohannan, Murali Kartik.

S Rajesh is sub editor of Wisden.com in India.

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