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New Delhi: Struggling to cope with Dwayne Bravo's absence, West Indies are planning to promote Kieron Pollard up the batting order and draft in spinner Nikita Miller for Monday's World Cup Group B match against the Netherlands.
Bravo has been ruled out of the tournament with a knee injury suffered during Thursday's defeat against South Africa and the West Indies team management said the setback has upset their World Cup strategy.
On the eve of the match here, captain Darren Sammy shared how they plan to make up for the loss.
"We might push him (Pollard) up the order to maximise his potentials," Sammy told reporters at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Sunday.
"He has a lot of experience in these conditions after playing in the IPL (Indian Premier League) and we need to use that."
Despite being familiar with the conditions, Pollard fell for a first ball duck to Dale Steyn while batting at number eight against South Africa.
"Nikita Miller has a strong case for making the playing XI on this Kotla track," Sammy said of the 28-year-old left-arm spinner from Jamaica.
His Dutch counterpart Peter Borren sounded more cheerful. Netherlands gave England a real scare before narrowly going down on Tuesday but the grit they showed seemed to question the logic behind leaving out the associate teams from the 2015 World Cup.
Alexei Kervezee isn't a man short of confidence. He has announced his ambition to play for England and his performances for Worcestershire suggest that isn't out of reach. He didn't quite get going against his possible future team-mates in Nagpur before top-edging a pull to depart for 16 off 25 balls but he remains one of Netherlands' key batsmen.
Teams from
West Indies: Sulieman Benn, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle, Nikita Miller, Kieron Pollard, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy (C), Ramnaresh Sarwan, Devon Smith, Kirk Edwards, Devon Thomas (WK)
Netherlands: Peter Borren (C), Adeel Raja, Wesley Barresi (WK), Mudassar Bukhari, Atse Buurman (WK), Tom Cooper, Tom de Grooth, Alexei Kervezee, Bradley Kruger, Bernard Loots, Pieter Seelaar, Eric Szwarczynski, Ryan ten Doeschate, Bas Zuiderent, Berend Westdijk
Pitch and conditions
Ottis Gibson, the West Indies coach, said he was surprised the pitch didn't slow up more against South Africa. There are also contrasting views on how important the dew factor will be - Peter Borren believes it will be a significant issue, but Darren Sammy is less bothered.
Stats and trivia
Match facts
Monday February 28, 2011 (day/night)
Start time 14:30 local (0900 GMT)
