CONFIDENT WEST INDIES HOLDING NOTHING BACK AGAINST PAPUA NEW GUINEA
CONFIDENT WEST INDIES HOLDING NOTHING BACK AGAINST PNG
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CMC) — Lifted by Tuesday's mastery of United Arab Emirates (UAE), a certain West Indies will go looking for their second in a row win when they go up against amateurs Papua New Guinea (PNG) it their second match of the ICC World Cup Qualifiers here today.
There were question marks about the Windies' solidness in the development to the opening round, when they lost to Afghanistan and edged UAE in their two authority warm-ups.
In any case, those questions immediately disseminated when Chris Gayle and freshman left-hander Shimron Hetmyer lashed hundreds as West Indies heaped up their fourth-most elevated aggregate in One-Day Internationals of 357 for four, in transit to a 60-run triumph over UAE.
Furthermore, however, Thursday's restriction at Old Hararians are barely of the quality to inconvenience the two-time previous World Cup champions, skipper Jason Holder said his side would hope to maintain their force in any case.
"We're playing every game like a last, as I said from the earliest starting point," he said here yesterday.
"We've seen a couple of the resistance up until now and everyone has a point to demonstrate, everyone needs to fit the bill for the World Cup. It's a major event so we'll anticipate that PNG will come starting up to give us another push, yet it's dependent upon us to be reliable and restrained.
"I think once we are steady and restrained, the outcomes will deal with themselves."
Gayle slammed 124 – his 23rd ODI hundred – while Hetmyer stroked the best score of 127 to indent his lady century in just his third appearance at this level, two innings that enabled West Indies to put the outcome out of question.
What's more, with Shai Hope (35) and Evin Lewis (31) offering help, the Caribbean side caught the UAE assault, in an approach which inspired Holder.
"I'm to a great degree satisfied with how the folks played. Clearly, Chris was remarkable and he extremely set the tone for us," the all-rounder clarified.
"I ponder how Chris played is that alternate folks came in and bolstered him. He was going incredible weapons and a person like Evin Lewis, who is regularly very familiar too, could bolster him and simply give him the strike.
"I think Shimron Hetmyer was exceptional also [in scoring] his lady ODI century. He extremely bolstered Chris in advance and when Chris left, he was the person to assume control over the mantle.
"He was extraordinary at doing that and demonstrated a ton of development for an extremely youthful player."
Both Windies warm-up matches were played on a drowsy track at the Harare Sports Club, prompting some worry that the pitches amid the competition would not be helpful for batting.
Holder, nonetheless, applauded the surface at Old Hararians, calling attention to that it gave the premise to aggressive cricket.
"It's a decent cricket wicket. I felt there was something in it for the seamers – not much in it for the spinners – but rather regardless I felt on the off chance that you were brilliant and enduring you would've possessed the capacity to get in a genuinely clean spell, yet surrounding it was great cricket wicket," he noted.
"The convey was predictable, the pace was steady too and it was a wicket you could score openly on. You could hit the line also and it made a decent scene for cricket."
PNG, in the interim, are confronting an unquestionable requirement win situation in the wake of losing their initial two matches. They went around 56 races to UAE and afterwards to Ireland by four wickets.
The main three from each gathering will progress to the Super Sixes, where they will each play three matches against groups they didn't meet in the preliminaries.
The finalists will secure the two residual billets at the ICC World Cup booked for England one year from now from May 30 to July 15
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CMC) — Lifted by Tuesday's mastery of United Arab Emirates (UAE), a certain West Indies will go looking for their second in a row win when they go up against amateurs Papua New Guinea (PNG) it their second match of the ICC World Cup Qualifiers here today.
There were question marks about the Windies' solidness in the development to the opening round, when they lost to Afghanistan and edged UAE in their two authority warm-ups.
In any case, those questions immediately disseminated when Chris Gayle and freshman left-hander Shimron Hetmyer lashed hundreds as West Indies heaped up their fourth-most elevated aggregate in One-Day Internationals of 357 for four, in transit to a 60-run triumph over UAE.
Furthermore, however, Thursday's restriction at Old Hararians are barely of the quality to inconvenience the two-time previous World Cup champions, skipper Jason Holder said his side would hope to maintain their force in any case.
"We're playing every game like a last, as I said from the earliest starting point," he said here yesterday.
"We've seen a couple of the resistance up until now and everyone has a point to demonstrate, everyone needs to fit the bill for the World Cup. It's a major event so we'll anticipate that PNG will come starting up to give us another push, yet it's dependent upon us to be reliable and restrained.
"I think once we are steady and restrained, the outcomes will deal with themselves."
Gayle slammed 124 – his 23rd ODI hundred – while Hetmyer stroked the best score of 127 to indent his lady century in just his third appearance at this level, two innings that enabled West Indies to put the outcome out of question.
What's more, with Shai Hope (35) and Evin Lewis (31) offering help, the Caribbean side caught the UAE assault, in an approach which inspired Holder.
"I'm to a great degree satisfied with how the folks played. Clearly, Chris was remarkable and he extremely set the tone for us," the all-rounder clarified.
"I ponder how Chris played is that alternate folks came in and bolstered him. He was going incredible weapons and a person like Evin Lewis, who is regularly very familiar too, could bolster him and simply give him the strike.
"I think Shimron Hetmyer was exceptional also [in scoring] his lady ODI century. He extremely bolstered Chris in advance and when Chris left, he was the person to assume control over the mantle.
"He was extraordinary at doing that and demonstrated a ton of development for an extremely youthful player."
Both Windies warm-up matches were played on a drowsy track at the Harare Sports Club, prompting some worry that the pitches amid the competition would not be helpful for batting.
Holder, nonetheless, applauded the surface at Old Hararians, calling attention to that it gave the premise to aggressive cricket.
"It's a decent cricket wicket. I felt there was something in it for the seamers – not much in it for the spinners – but rather regardless I felt on the off chance that you were brilliant and enduring you would've possessed the capacity to get in a genuinely clean spell, yet surrounding it was great cricket wicket," he noted.
"The convey was predictable, the pace was steady too and it was a wicket you could score openly on. You could hit the line also and it made a decent scene for cricket."
PNG, in the interim, are confronting an unquestionable requirement win situation in the wake of losing their initial two matches. They went around 56 races to UAE and afterwards to Ireland by four wickets.
The main three from each gathering will progress to the Super Sixes, where they will each play three matches against groups they didn't meet in the preliminaries.
The finalists will secure the two residual billets at the ICC World Cup booked for England one year from now from May 30 to July 15
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