Gibson feels Sunil Narine could be the saviour against England – Cricket News Update
The West Indies head coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013.
Speaking to the media reporters in Leicester, the visiting coach said that the 24-year-old Trinidad & Tobago off-spinner could be a trump card in the third and last Test of the series, starting at Edgbaston, Birmingham, from Thursday, June 7, 2012.
“I think it’s his first time playing international cricket in England,” said Gibson, adding, “and there’s a disadvantage playing for the first time in these conditions but it’s an advantage because the opposition haven’t seen him yet.”
Narine, fresh from a stupendous IPL stint with Kolkata Knight Riders, earned a surprise call up into the Test squad after spearhead fast bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KAJ-Roach-c1758 was ruled out of the remainder of the England tour with a shin muscle injury.
Roach, who led the visiting pace attack in the opening two Tests at Lord's and Trent Bridge, was diagnosed with the injury after the second match and it was decided to immediately send him back home for rehabilitation, as a hectic summer awaits the Caribbean
side.
Narine, who had earlier opted out of the home Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 Cricket Board selectors
decided to hand him an early ticket to England to give the rookie off-spinner some extra time to get acclimatised to the seam friendly English conditions, totally different from those in subcontinent, where the Trinidadian spent his last two months, playing
in the IPL.
The 24-year-old right-arm off-spin bowler has so far played eight One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 internationals, and is yet to debut in Test cricket. However, he has proven himself in the longest format of the game at the domestic level, where he
has 34 scalps in his name from just six First class games at an astonishing average of 11.88.
West Indies have already lost the three-match series with comprehensive defeats in the first two Tests (by five wickets at Lord's and nine wickets at Trent Bridge) and the third Test at Edgbaston only provides the tourists a chance to regain some of the
lost pride by avoiding a 0-3 whitewash.
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