The rain stayed away on Saturday morning, and West Indies chose to field in the tour opener, the only Twenty20 international in Trinidad. They didn't make any changes to the side that beat Pakistan in the Twenty20 in the first half of their home season.A weakened Indian side, led by Suresh Raina, had a few choices to make. Parthiv Patel and Shikhar Dhawan were chosen to open, S Badrinath and Rohit Sharma filled the middle-order vacancies, and R Ashwin was the second spinner beside Harbhajan Singh.
West Indies 1 Lendl Simmons, 2 Andre Fletcher (wk), 3 Darren Bravo, 4 Marlon Samuels, 5 Danza Hyatt, 6 Darren Sammy (capt), 7 Christopher Barnwell, 8 Andre Russell, 9 Ashley Nurse, 10 Devendra Bishoo, 11 Ravi Rampaul.
India 1 Shikhar Dhawan, 2 Parthiv Patel (wk), 3 Suresh Raina (capt), 4 Virat Kohli, 5 S Badrinath, 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 Yusuf Pathan, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Praveen Kumar, 10 Munaf Patel, 11 R Ashwin.
