Vin­ode Mam­chan

Two of the most un­pre­dictable teams in world crick­et will come up against each oth­er from Fri­day in all three for­mats of the game and West In­dies leg-spin­ner Samuel Badree agrees with the sim­i­lar­i­ty.

"Pak­istan are very sim­i­lar to us in terms of their con­sis­ten­cy – or lack, there­of," Badree said. "One day they will give a bril­liant per­for­mance, just like us, then the next, they leave a lot to be de­sired."

Badree, one of the top bowlers in the T20 for­mat, will lead the West In­dies chal­lenge from Fri­day when they play the first of three match­es at Dubai.

The Trinida­di­an was mind­ful of the dan­ger­ous na­ture of the Asians: "Pak­istan is a very, very dan­ger­ous team which can de­mol­ish any op­po­si­tion, and we are wary of that chal­lenge. We re­spect every op­po­si­tion that we come up against, and we are go­ing to do the same against Pak­istan. We are go­ing to pre­pare well, know­ing that Pak­istan is a very, very dan­ger­ous team."

The West In­dies go in­to the T20 se­ries as world champs hav­ing won the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) World T20 ti­tle in In­dia in March. Pak­istan is cur­rent­ly ranked sev­enth in the for­mat. West In­dies have some new faces from that team that won the fi­nals against Eng­land. They al­so have a new cap­tain in Car­los Brath­waite who led them to a 1-0 win over In­dia re­cent­ly at Broward, USA.

Miss­ing out on the UAE games are the dan­ger­ous Ja­maican pair of Chris Gayle and An­dre Rus­sell, as well as the Trinida­di­an open­er Lendl Sim­mons.

Badree con­tin­ued: "It's a dif­fer­ent team from the team that won the World T20. We have a lot of new guys, a few play­ers who are mak­ing their de­buts on this tour. A num­ber of our guys have been here be­fore – the likes of (Sunil) Nar­ine, (Dwayne) Bra­vo, (Kieron) Pol­lard. So we are look­ing for­ward to some very good games and, of course, we'd like to win the se­ries and re­main as one of the best T20 teams in the world."