212 was a lot to chase for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DJG-Sammy-c1382 – Cricket News Update
Darren Sammy, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 captain, is happy after levelling the five-match One Day International (ODI) series against Bangladesh 2-2, having won the fourth fixture, and expressed that the pitch at Mirpur was not conducive for stroke-play.
After being put in to bat by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mushfiqur-Rahim-c2045, the visitors were struggling to get going in the first innings, having lost six wickets for merely 102 runs, before Sammy took it upon himself to make his team post a competitive total of
211 on the board.
The West Indies captain, who is often criticised for not contributing much to the team’s cause as a player, answered his critics in style, scoring an unbeaten 60 off merely 62 balls, in which he smashed five boundaries and a couple
of towering sixes.
The home team were bundled out for just 136 runs in the second-half of the encounter, allowing the visitors to square the battle, with the last match scheduled to be played today at the same venue.
Sammy accumulated 43 runs for the seventh-wicket partnership with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DM-Bravo-c1386 and feels that it was the turning-point of the match.
“Looking at the way the game was unfolding, I always told myself that if we bat till the end we stand the chance of scoring 190-plus,” Sammy said. “It is about applying yourself in the middle. My partnership with [Darren] Bravo was
crucial. We just said 'let us try to bat deep'.”
The all-rounder picked up three wickets in the Bangladesh innings to complement his performances with the bat and was adjudged as the Player of the Match.
West Indies possess one of the most threatening batting line-ups in limited-over internationals but they have so far struggled to post big scores against Bangladesh. Sammy expressed that the ball was not coming on to the bat at Mirpur,
which made it extremely hard for the batsmen to execute their strokes properly.
“We wanted to have a go in the last four overs. We kept losing wickets, so we had to push [launching the final surge] back. But it proved today that 212 runs was a lot [to chase] on that wicket,” he added.
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