All-rounders add balance<\/p>\n
West Indies have packed the squad with all-rounders that allow them to bat deeper while also retaining variety in their bowling attack. The likes of Jason Holder, Romario Shepherd, Roston Chase, Matthew Forde provide the two-time champions with a lot of flexibility and variety.<\/p>\n
In addition, Akeal Hosein and Gudakesh Motie, although primarily bowlers, can be more than handy with the bat if needed, giving West Indies immense batting depth.<\/p>\n
The batting depth allows the power hitters in the squad such as Powell, Shimron Hetmyer and Sherfane Rutherford the license to go big from the get-go and play their natural game, as well as that of the team.<\/p>\n
On the bowling front too, West Indies have plenty of options, especially for the death overs to make a real impact.<\/p>\n
Quentin Sampson, who made everyone take notice in the Caribbean Premier League 2025, is also a player to watch out for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-rounders add balance West Indies have packed the squad with all-rounders that allow them to bat deeper while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,1950,95847,162734,95852,95833,7301,95851,162732,95834,90626,162737,85,162733,162735,95831,162736],"class_list":["post-439853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-headlines","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-news","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-icc-announcements","tag-sports","tag-t20-world-cup-news-updates","tag-today-cricket-match-news","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-world-cup-cricket-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}