Will West Indies tour give india a chance to prove themselves?

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s India hope a one-day series in the West Indies later this month will help them recover from a dismal campaign in the World Twenty20.

India, who won the inaugural event in South Africa two years ago, failed to make the semi-finals after losing all three Super Eight matches against the West Indies, England and South Africa.

They now embark on a tour of the Caribbean for four one-dayers, the last leg of a hectic nine-month schedule across the globe that included the five-week Indian Premier League in South Africa in April-May.
India will return home after the last game against the West Indies at St Lucia on July 5 and will get a chance to rest till the Champions Trophy starts in South Africa in late September.

Skipper Dhoni wanted his team to forget the disappointing performance in the World Twenty20 and look ahead towards the series against the West Indies.

“Once you lose a few games, you start dissecting everything and count how much better we could have played,” the Indian captain said.

“We consider 80 per cent as the benchmark. If you are close to that, with the talent we have in the team, we have more chances of winning games. But we were more like 50 to 60 per cent of our potential in England.

“The T20 World Cup is gone. We are off to the West Indies, and that is what we are thinking about now. In the next two or three days, we will take some time off. Then we will start working back on the basics again, accept this has happened and start preparing for the West Indies.