Marlon Samuels feels Pakistan have a high-class bowling line-up – Cricket news
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marlon-Nathaniel-Samuels-c74804, the West Indian batsman, believes that Pakistan possess a high-class bowling line-up and feels that being able to rotate the strike more often was the key for him in the fourth fixture of the on-going One Day International (ODI) series.
The cricketer from Jamaica struggled in the initial half of the series to cope with Pakistan’s bowling attack, which has some brilliant bowlers like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 in its ranks. The right-hander, however, rose to the occasion in the fourth match at St. Lucia and blasted a brilliant hundred to help his team post a competitive total of 261 runs on the board in their allotted 49 overs.
Pakistani batsmen however batted out of their skins and chased down the total with six wickets to spare, in what was a rain affected match.
The middle-order batsman praised the quality of Pakistan’s bowling but said that he has assessed the strengths and weaknesses of the Green Shirts' bowling.
Samuels said, “They [Pakistan] have a high-class bowling attack but when I see a bowling attack two or three times, I sum it up properly. I've been watching a lot of tapes with Richard Berridge [video and statistical analyst] and by just summing them up, I realised who I'm going to target and who I'm not going to target and get as much singles as possible, so I batted to a plan today and it actually worked.”
The hard-hitting batsman is disappointed to have finished on the losing side but he claims that the result of the fourth match could have been different if rain had not intervened in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s innings, which reduced their target to 189 runs off 31 overs.
“It was a lot of runs on the board and the Pakistan batting has not been clicking consistently. We know we have quality bowlers,” he added.
The final ODI of the battle between two very exciting teams is going to be played on Wednesday at the same venue, with the tourists looking to maintain their ascendency and the home team keen to square the series. The ODIs are going to be followed by a couple of T20 Internationals.
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