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India vs West Indies: Complete schedule, fixtures, squad After winning the Asia Cup in Dubai, team India is all set to battle it out against the West Indies in the two test match series followed by five-match ODI matches and concluding with three-match T20I series.

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Test specialists Chheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane to play against New Zealand A to prepare for West Indies tour In addition to two practice games, Test specialists to also play against NZ A to prepare for the tour

has washed his hands off the l’affaire Karun Nair, saying the matter has already been addressed by the concerned persons and he is not the one to be queried about it.“The selectors have already spoken about it and it is not my place to say. There are three selectors (not three, but five) who are doing their job and as I say, people conveniently merge everything and make it a circle... where everyone's given that opportunity or doing their job, not focussing on what's happening or being spoken on the outside,” the India skipper said of the issue that was one of the biggest headline points of Indianover the last few days.Nair, part of the five-Test squad in England, was ignored for all the games and a late entrant () was preferred to him in the Oval Test. This has led Nair to speak out about his plight in England. “It is difficult, but I haven't gone forth and asked anything, but yeah, we haven't had any conversation,” Nair told Cricbuzz about not having conversation either with the team management or the selectors.Chief selector MSK Prasad has since clarified that he had had a word with the Bangalore batsman. “The selector has already clarified that and I don't think I am in a place to speak about that, I think it's not my job as a captain to speak about that. So if a person has spoken about a certain thing, it should be cleared then. It shouldn't be brought in here again. That's exactly what I mean. Selection is not my part of the job, it is upon three (five) individuals to do what they are doing. And as a team we have to do what we are doing,” Kohli added.Team management sources have told this paper that Nair actually was spoken to by the concerned in England and there are also unconfirmed information that Nair has apparently clarified in the BCCI circle that he was misquoted. But this information could not be independently verified.