Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia-Bhuvneshwar Kumar demolished the West Indies first innings as India resuscitated their victory prospects following the third day washout by dismissing the home side for 225 on the fourth day of the third Test at the Darren Sammy National Stadium in St Lucia on Friday. “So it is important to be in that process regularly and think about achieving that no.1 Test status as a team”, he said, about the possibility of India going top in the rankings should they win at the Queen’s Park Oval.
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Become a subscriber to the Trinidad Express Newspapers for access to all our articles via our vNEWS. Our goal is to play attacking cricket and dominate West Indies here because we have been playing good cricket and it is important to finish well on this tour. We wanted to bowl about 80 overs and discussed that in the team meeting. “It is how you adjust and how you assess the conditions at a particular number”. And actually that is what helping me in the middle to bat at number five. “This is a young team and we want to reach (top spot)”. Generating steep bounce from a good length from an action that some said had the effect of releasing the ball from the clouds and then breaking toes with a yorker that was decades ahead of its time, Garner was more than a handful in an era when fast bowling was at its most fertile.
“I wish them luck if they want cricket to remain with the big three or the big four”, he said. “It is important to assess the conditions once you go in and play according to that”.
“I don’t think that the players take that little bit extra to do things on their own, and I don’t think that everything can be structured or everything can be done in a…” But visualization helps a lot and most of the times I speak with our coaches, Sanjay Bangar and Anil Kumble.
“We are fortunate that we can play ten games now as opposed to five”. It is important to read the conditions really well and play according to that rather than thinking about anything else. So number doesn’t matter for me.
The 28-year-old believes India have been performing really well as a team, saying that the strategies have been working fantastically for each and every individual against the opponents. We played some good cricket so far and have improved ourselves. You can see us running laps around the ground and the whole team does that, even after the match, 5-6 players do it. when you are playing Test cricket it is important to increase your endurance.
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Speaking to the press before the fourth game, Rahane said “I try and visualise the different situations and that really helps me”.
