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Monday, July 7, 2025

Lloyd: WI can upset India

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PERTH–Chair­man of se­lec­tors Clive Lloyd be­lieves In­dia are for­mi­da­ble op­po­nents but says a dis­ci­plined West In­dies ef­fort can see the reign­ing World cham­pi­ons beat­en, when the two teams meet at the WA­CA Ground here Fri­day.

In­dia are un­beat­en in three out­ings in the ICC Crick­et World Cup while West In­dies have lost two of four games, and both teams will be eye­ing vic­to­ry as cru­cial es­pe­cial­ly with a place in the next round loom­ing.

"The point is that we have a good bowl­ing at­tack, good bats­men, and a good all-round side," Lloyd said here yes­ter­day.

"If we bat, we have to make enough runs to win and de­fend. We do have the bowlers to do so. This pitch is quite good � it's got very con­stant bounce. It's a good crick­et pitch. They (In­dia) have won three out of three, so we can't fault their bowl­ing or their bat­ting."

He added: "One-day crick­et is about who plays well on the day and gets their dis­ci­plines right. If we do that, we give them a good run for their mon­ey. They're de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons and they want to be in this World Cup as long as pos­si­ble.

"It's ob­vi­ous that this game is im­por­tant to us, and to you for that mat­ter. We want to do well and if we play to our abil­i­ty, we'll be able to do so."

In­dia opened their cam­paign with a 76-run vic­to­ry over Pak­istan and fol­lowed up by crush­ing South Africa by 130 runs. They over­pow­ered min­nows Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates to win by nine wick­ets.

De­spite In­dia's form, Lloyd said he was hop­ing to see West In­dies put up a strong chal­lenge.

"In­dia's al­ways a for­mi­da­ble side and they'll con­tin­ue to be so. But when you set a stan­dard, peo­ple ex­pect you to keep that stan­dard all the time," he point­ed out.

"In­dia are do­ing well, but I hope they don't do too well on Fri­day. It will be a good game. In­dia will be good op­po­nents. They've been play­ing well and we've been spo­radic in our play but we're hop­ing that this pitch will suit us quite well. It should be quite an ex­cit­ing game."

West In­dies' re­cent record against In­dia does not make for good read­ing. They have lost their last four se­ries and have suf­fered de­feats in 13 of their last 20 meet­ings.

On last Oc­to­ber's ill-fat­ed tour, they won the first game of the se­ries con­vinc­ing­ly be­fore go­ing on to lose the abort­ed se­ries.

Lloyd not­ed the Caribbean side was com­ing up against the core of the same squad from last year.

"It's near­ly the same sort of side. Your pace bowl­ing seems to be pret­ty good and you have a good spin bowler in (Ravi) Ash­win," the leg­endary for­mer Windies cap­tain said.

"You've got a good va­ri­ety, and I think you have good all-round strength. Vi­rat Kohli has been a tremen­dous play­er over the last two years and now you have the likes of (Shikhar) Dhawan com­ing through. I think you should do well." CMC


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