The two Twenty20 Internationals over the weekend will be the first instance of India being involved in a competitive match in the USA. It is the only ICC certified ODI standard stadium facility in the USA and hosted six Caribbean Premier League matches last month. Dhoni's last assignment was against Zimbabwe where he led a young Indian team, sans the stars, to victory in both the ODIs and T20I series in Harare in June. Even though India won the Test series 2-0, players from the Test squad are coming with hardly any recent match practice because of the rain-affected fourth Test in Port-of-Spain where the last four days didn't see any play. Indian coach Anil Kumble was, however, still optimistic about a good performance in what will be his first assignment with Dhoni.

Source: dna August 26, 2016 06:56 UTC