Darren Sammy delighted with his team’s performance in the Antigua Test – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 at Antigua, and praised his fast bowlers for bowling their hearts out on a flat batting track, which was not offering
anything to the seamers.
West Indies outclassed the visitors in all departments of the game, winning the match by nine wickets to take a lead in the series. Prior to that, the Caribbean men dismantled the Black Caps in the limited-overs series as well, enhancing their morale ahead
of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 in September/October.
The home team came up with some brilliant performances in the first Test, with the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Philip-Narine-c91869 performing out of their skins. The former scoring his maiden Test hundred, whereas, the latter was named as the Player of the Match
for picking up eight wickets.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CH-Gayle-c1221, who was playing a Test after almost 18 months, turned out to be the difference between the two sides, scoring 150 in the first innings and an unbeaten half-century in the second.
Sammy is delighted with the side’s performance and admired the effort put in by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Rampaul-c2233, who picked up 11 wickets between themselves in the encounter.
"The team is playing really well. On a hard wicket, we all did our parts. It was very tough for the quicks, I must congratulate http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RD-Shah-c2298 and Roach for their efforts," said the West Indies captain.
Apart from praising the match-winning partnership between Gayle and Powell in the first innings, the all-rounder revealed that he motivated Rampaul before the last day’s play, who bowled fast on a flat track and picked up a couple of crucial scalps.
"Credit to Chris and Powell for the position they put us in," Sammy expressed. "I fired up Rampaul today, not intentionally. I wanted to bring on Sunil, but he wanted only more over, and I saw the look on his face, and decided to keep him on. He bowled 135
and got us the breakthroughs."
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