Variation in bowling attack worked wonders: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Philip-Narine-c91869 – Cricket News Update
West Indies’ star spinner Sunil Narine, who spearheaded his side’s defence during the 5th and final ODI against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 at St Kitts on July 16, resulting in a 20-run victory and 4-1 series win for his side, claimed that the secret to his success
lay in the variations he had employed in his bowling attack.
Expressing satisfaction with his first ODI series win for the team, and the Windies’ first ODI series win against Test-level opposition (barring http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747) since 2009, Narine went on to reveal that prior to the match he had spoken to coach
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ottis-Delroy-Gibson-c80358 regarding new ideas on how to attack the batsmen.
“He [Gibson] suggested that I could look at some more variety and I ... worked hard at how I could come from around the wicket and look to get the ball to 'pitch on',” Narine explained. “As you saw today, it worked wonders as I got wickets from around the
wicket. That is something I will definitely work on in the coming weeks.”
Narine was awarded the Player of the Match award, for his career-best haul of 5 for 27. The off-spinner kept the pressure on the Kiwi batsmen after his side had set them a target of 242, claiming crucial wickets – top-order batsmen http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BB-McCullum-c1129 (33)
and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KD-Mills-c1781 (1) served as Narine’s
last two victims.
“Today, I felt calm and relaxed running in to bowl,” he observed. “The ball came out nicely and I felt in control ... the batsmen did a fantastic job to provide us with a score to bowl at.”
The right-armer’s five-for enabled him to bring his total series tally up to 13 wickets at an economy rate of 2.92 –a performance which won him the Player of the Series award. The team’s next assignment is their Test series against the Kiwis, and Narine
will be hoping make as strong an impression in the extended-overs format.
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