Young Antiguan fast bowler Alzarri Joseph has earned his first stint with the senior West Indies men’s team and is slated to join the rest of the 14-man squad in Jamaica for the second Test in the four-match Seagram’s Royal Stag Cup series against India starting Saturday. Viv Richards drew a painting of Indian Test captain Virat Kohli and gifted it to him, commemorating his maiden Test double hundred in the first test versus West Indies. “For us the effort now is in moving on from that win and yet continuing to do well in the coming match and remainder of the series”, said Mishra. That’s how we become a better team. “If we stay positive and keep executing our plans according to the situations the results will follow”. This is what we have and we need to make use of what we have and perform. “The way we finished the Test, it all panned out pretty nicely”. The 27-year-old Kohli replaced Mahendra Singh Dhoni as India’s Test captain after the wicketkeeper-batsman retired from that form of cricket during the tour of Australia in late 2014. Reading about captain Kohli’s declaration during the post-match news conference of a fearless new Indian transformation from learning to dominating fuelled a bold new sense of flag-waving jingoism. “We feel highly motivated after that win. We need to play well and then we will see where we are as a unit”. After this series, a three-match tri-series could be held in Florida, USA. So we discussed that we will look to bowl wicket taking deliveries at them so that runs are also tough to come by. I just got one wicket in the last Test match and maybe I will get more in the next match.
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“All we can do is try and bowl well, and that is what I am trying to do”.
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Ishant, who is the leader of the Indian pace attack, heaped praise on his fellow pacers and said that the planning and execution from Shami, Umesh and himself was the main reason behind their success in the first game. He understands that very nicely and he was obviously very happy with the victory. He had not picked up any wickets in the first innings.
