It will be a hard final day for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ottis-Delroy-Gibson-c80358 – Cricket News Update
The West Indian coach, Ottis Gibson, is happy with his team’s fine performance on the first four days of the second Test against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747, but admitted that a lot of effort will be required on the final day to win the match.
Thanks to Darren Bravo’s brilliant knock of 195 runs, the Caribbean Kings set a huge target of 508 for Bangladesh, and the home side is still 344 runs behind with seven wickets in hand.
It was an exciting fourth day, as the two teams played some very good cricket. The Windies picked up opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tamim-Iqbal-c2640 – by smashing an aggressive half-century – made them realise that they will have to come up with something better
to seal the game.
Despite the fact that Tamim and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mushfiqur-Rahim-c2045 are well settled on 82 and 33 respectively, the tourists are in the driving seat, as the Mirpur wicket will assist Caribbean spinners on the final day.
After stumps on Day-4, Gibson said that the players are delighted to be in control of a game after a long time but at same time, conceded that the Bengali Tigers will not lay down their arms quickly.
"It's nice to be in control of a Test match after so many games of trying. We know Tamim is still in the crease and he's a quality player, so we're mindful of that. We've set them a record target of 508. Four hundred and eighteen is the record score so we're
happy with that. But we're also mindful that it's still a very good wicket to bat on, so we have to work hard for our wickets. We need to get seven wickets to win and the wicket is still playing well, although we found it difficult to score in the morning,"
said Gibson who has a plenty of coaching experience under his belt.
When asked about the secret of the batsmen’s success against Bangladesh’s strong spin attack, the coach shared that the guys learnt a lesson from their mistakes in the first Test and came into the second game after doing proper home work.
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