India Tests Pace Depth in Upcoming West Indies ODI Series

IND vs WI ODIs 2026: A low-stakes test for India's pace depth. An hour before India's practice session started, the weather changed briefly but dramatically in Trivandrum with a short burst of heavy rain. The day ended with a mobile flash alert, warning of a potential swell surge. Two hours into the session, the actual clouds gave way to an injury cloud within the India camp: Shubman Gill was hit by a Mohammed Siraj delivery in the nets and did not return to bat afterward. Between those two events, the familiar sight of Morne Morkel, now a regular at pre-series pressers, looked to make sense of the West Indies ODIs, which fall between the much-hyped Eng