Otis Gibson not ready to give up on the first Test yet
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 coach Otis Gibson is not ready to give up on his team’s chances in the first Test against India and claims that his team has the ability to bounce back.
The visitors were leading by 167 runs in their second innings with seven wickets in hand on a pitch which is getting worse after every single session and it is surely going to favour the Indian spinners in the last innings.
However, Gibson feels that his team still has a chance to take a lead in the series if the bowlers can restrict the strong Indian batting line-up.
The Caribbean coach said, “We still have a great opportunity to restrict India, and if we can restrict them to anything below 250 or 280, it's still a great run chase for us. Perhaps, India holds a slight advantage. They have the runs on the board, but we
have seen that we can take wickets."
Even though the Caribbean team is struggling in the batting department but their best batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CH-Gayle-c1221 is still being ignored by the West Indian selectors, which does not make any sense to the cricket fans all around the world.
Gibson expressed that this is a great chance for the young Caribbean batsmen to score some runs in international cricket as India’s bowling is definitely not one of the best in the business.
"It's just about people going out and having a mind set about batting for a long period of time. We have a chance to play against an Indian attack that's not the greatest with someone like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379 missing, so it's an opportunity for our players to make
bigger scores," he added.
Although, West Indian team is pumped up to give a tough fight to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 in the remainder of the first Test at Jamaica but the world champions are favourites to go 1-0 up after this match, especially because the home team’s batsmen have failed to apply themselves
in the longer version of the sport. On top of that, the playing conditions in Jamaica are ideal for the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 and company.
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