The Indian cricket team toured the West Indies for a four-match Test series.

[1][2] The tour coincided with the 2016 Caribbean Premier League.

[4] In July 2016 the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) met with West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to look at the possibility of adding three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches to the tour.

The WICB requested that the matches could be played at the Central Broward Regional Park in Florida at the end of August.

[5] The West Indies previously played T20I matches in the United States against New Zealand in June 2012.