West Indies, India face-off in third ODI
Published:Friday | July 3, 2009 | 8:50 AM
The third One-Day International between hosts West Indies and India will take place this morning at the Beausejour Stadium in St Lucia, beginning at 8:30 Jamaica time.
The four-match series is locked 1-1 following the opening two games at Sabina Park in Jamaica.
West Indies lost the opening game by 20 runs last Friday in a high-scoring affair, before brushing aside the visitors by eight wickets in the second match two days later.
The match will be played under a small cloud of controversy with local hero Darren Sammy having been overlooked for the series.
The issue has been discussed on radio call-in programmes with St Lucians expressing their dissatisfaction with the move by the selectors to omit Sammy from the 13-man squad.
Jamaican all-rounder David Bernard Junior was chosen ahead of the experienced Sammy for the first two matches and then retained for the final two games in St Lucia.