USA VS WEST INDIES CRICKET DREAM 11 PLAYERS

1. Monank Patel Right hand Bat Wicketkeeper

2. Aaron Jones Right hand Bat Top order Batter

3. Sherfane Rutherford Left hand Bat Middle order Batter

4. Rovman Powell Right hand Bat Middle order Batter

5. Brandon Alexander King Right hand Bat Top order Batter

6. Steven Ryan Taylor Left hand Bat and Right arm Offbreak Opening Batter

7. Roston Lamar Chase ight hand Bat and Right arm Offbreak Allrounder

8. Obed McCoy Left arm Fast medium Bowler

9. Gudakesh Motie Slow Left arm Orthodox Bowler

10. Saurabh Naresh Netravalkar Left arm Fast medium Bowler

11. Andre Dwayne Russell Right hand Bat Allrounder



(last five completed matches, most recent first)

USA: LLWWL West Indies: LWWWW

Pitch and conditions

Bridgetown has seen relatively high scores in comparison to the rest of the tournament, though it did play host to the low-scoring tie between Namibia and Oman at the start of the tournament. It will be a humid evening, with chances of rain low.

Russell and Taylor

He has been one of T20 cricket's most valuable players for the best part of the last decade, but Andre Russell has been kept uncharacteristically quiet for the best part of this World Cup. A pair of unbeaten cameos against PNG and Uganda are about as good as it's good for him with the bat, and though he continues to chip in with wickets, it is that explosiveness at the death West Indies really need him for. Part of it simply has to do with the batters higher up making sure he wasn't required, but on the two occasions he was - against New Zealand and England - he fell cheaply. As a veteran of both of West Indies' triumphant World Cup campaigns, he will know he's expected to be a lot more influential for his side in the second half of this tournament if they are to go the distance again.



Steven Taylor's rise appeared to be proof that cricket in America was capable of attracting US-born athletes to this sport. A precocious rising star through his teenage years, he has been involved with American cricket for well over a decade. This World Cup should have been his crowning glory, but while Aaron Jones, Andries Gous and Saurabh Netravalkar have shone, Taylor has struggled to convert starts into substance at the top of the order. Born to Jamaican parents, he has history with the West Indies, and was once stripped of the US captaincy after he chose to play the CPL over a USA World Cup qualifier. He now comes up against the side he once declared an intention to play for, and the stakes could hardly be higher.

West Indies have played two T20 World Cup matches in Barbados, both at the 2010 tournament. They split the games, losing to Sri Lanka before beating India.

Obed McCoy and Akeal Hosein are both closing in on wicket-taking milestones, one and two wickets away respectively from 50 T20I scalps.

WI must avoid defeat

This isn't a match the tournament expected, but one it deserves all the same. The co-hosts of this T20 World Cup found ways of getting through the group stages, in different fashion and to varying degrees of surprise. West Indies' unblemished record in the group punctuated by a 104-run hammering of Afghanistan cemented their status as legitimate title contenders. The USA's progress, meanwhile, depended on a dream of a performance against Pakistan that culminated in Super Over heroics, as well as inclement Florida weather that guaranteed Pakistan would not be offered the opportunity to get back up off the canvas.

But the group stages are a distant memory all of a sudden, and both sides have experienced the cold, unforgiving reality of the Super Eight. West Indies' hopes of a third title and first on home soil suddenly looks much shakier than it did one game ago, after a reprieved England rediscovered their best form in St Lucia to put them to the sword. Another defeat would put them on the brink of elimination