West Indies and Afghanistan will face each other over three T20Is in Sharjah next year as both teams build up towards the World Cup. The bilateral series is scheduled to begin on January 19 just days before the ICC event kicks off in India and Sri Lanka in February.

CWI's Director of Cricket, Miles Bascombe, said: "This series provides an ideal platform for our preparation. Facing strong opposition in subcontinental conditions will help us sharpen our combinations and approach, and it also gives our players a chance to build confidence on surfaces similar to those we'll encounter in India and Sri Lanka."

West Indies co-hosted the last T20 World Cup, where they went through to the Super Eight stage but couldn't make the knockouts. Afghanistan did make it to the semi-finals of that even

See Full Page