West Indies tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DJG-Sammy-c1382 – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 skipper, Darren Sammy, rued the lack of runs on the board after his side faltered miserably against England in the second One Day International of the three-match series at Kennington Oval London, on Tuesday, June 19.
"We didn't score enough runs,” said the visiting skipper at the post-match presentation ceremony after his side’s 8-wicket thumping at the hands of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 and Co.
“At the end of the day you need runs on the board to defend. We wanted 280, we know the Oval wicket is a good one (for batting),” Sammy added further.
Put into bat by the home skipper, the explosive West Indies opener, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CH-Gayle-c1221, donning the Caribbean colours after more than a year, provided the tourists with a belligerent start, clubbing five sixes and three boundaries in his 63-run opening stand with
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LMP-Simmons-c1843, the bulk coming from Gayle (53 off 51 balls).
The Windies lost Gayle, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KA-Pollard-c1754 (41) gave stability to West Indies’ innings with a hundred-run partnership for the fifth-wicket.
After Pollard’s dismissal in the 40th over, caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TT-Bresnan-c2711, the rest of the visiting batsmen failed to build a partnership with Bravo, as the tourists wrapped up their stipulated fifty overs on 238 for 9. Sammy, however, refrained
from blaming the lower-order collapse for the eight-wicket crushing.
“We know cricket isn't played on paper, it's played out in the middle. You have to go out and perform and we haven't done that... It's alway hard to ask the lower order to try and get runs," admitted the 28-year-old St. Lucia all-rounder.
“We didn't bowl our lines and lengths consistently enough but they played well on a good wicket,” he added further.
Having already lost the series 2-0 to England, the visiting skipper hoped to make a turnaround in the final One Day International of the series, which gets underway at Leeds, on June 22.
The ODI series will be followed by a one-off T20 international at Nottingham on Sunday.
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