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India set to tour West Indies for 4-Test series in July 2016

West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) have announced that they will be completing the abandoned 2014 tour of India

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Team India © Getty Images

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has given its fans something to cheer about as they announced its decision to host four-match Tests series against India in 2016. As reported on zeenews.india.com, WICB President David Cameron on Thursday confirmed the news following the discussions with Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Shashank Manohar. This agreement is subject to the WICB and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) “giving a joint commitment to complete, at a later date, the tour which prematurely ended in October 2014″, said a WICB statement.

Cameron said, “Cricket remained the centrepiece of our discussion and we are happy to be at this juncture.” If all goes as per plan, Virat Kohli-led Indian team will visit the Caribbean Island in July –August, 2016.  The West Indies walked out of their 2014 India tour after the fourth one-day international in Dharamsala due to a bitter dispute over player contracts. They had been scheduled to play a further ODI, one Twenty20 game and three Tests.  West Indies won the first One-Day International (ODI) by a big margin of 124 runs, before India managed to take a 2-1 series lead by winning the second and the fourth matches of the series.

During the build-up to the pull-out, the West Indians were seen sporting black arm-bands during the second one-dayer in Delhi, while then-captain Dwayne Bravo was surrounded by his team-mates in a show of solidarity at the toss during the fourth match. In the aftermath of the tour being abandoned, India said they would pursue a claim for $42 million in compensation from the cash-strapped WICB.

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