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Monday, July 14, 2025

Sammy: Talk is cheap

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West In­dies skip­per Dar­ren Sam­my, re­spond­ing to a jibe made by Aus­tralian all rounder James Faulkn­er be­fore their World T20 clash in Dha­ka, Bangladesh yes­ter­day said: "Talk is cheap."Sam­my smoked Faulkn­er for two six­es in the last over to take the West In­dies to a won­der­ful six-wick­et vic­to­ry, to stay alive in the tour­na­ment. West In­dies lost their first game against In­dia, re­spond­ed with a crush­ing win over Bangladesh and now with the win against Aus­tralia, they need to de­feat Pak­istan in their last game next Tues­day to be cer­tain of a place in the semi­fi­nals.

Lead­ing up to the clash Faulkn­er said he did not like the West In­dies. Sam­my, speak­ing af­ter the win, said: "Talk is cheap, let him con­tin­ue talk­ing. He would not like us more now, af­ter that de­feat."As I said be­fore, we rather let our bats do the talk­ing and that we did out there to win this match. We had not fo­cussed a lot on what he said go­ing in­to the match but we did speak about it and I can tell you that it did serve as mo­ti­va­tion for us. We want­ed to go out there and beat them and we did, so he might want to con­tin­ue talk­ing af­ter this de­feat."Sam­my said he was look­ing to get un­der the ball in the last over and was able to do that hence hit­ting the two six­es to win the match. "Well they say we are a six-hit­ting team, so with 12 need­ed I told my­self I need­ed to get un­der the ball to hit it for six and this I did. Dwayne Bra­vo was with me and he played a won­der­ful in­nings as well to get us home.'

Sam­my end­ed on 34 not out off 13 balls, while Bra­vo made 27 not out off 12 balls, to get the un­be­liev­able win.Look­ing ahead, Sam­my said the bat­ting of Gayle is an omi­nous sign for teams they have to meet still."I said Chris was hit­ting the ball well and you saw that tonight. He has been spend­ing time in the mid­dle and now play­ing well, teams must be con­cerned."Sam­my's op­po­site num­ber George Bai­ley said his team lost the game be­cause they did not make enough runs. "I thought that we scraped to 180-odd and al­though this was pleas­ing, it was not what could have won us the game. We can­not just place the blame on the bowlers, we have to take blame as bats­men as well. The first six of us I think played or­di­nary shots or shots that were not re­quired at the time and in the end we did not get the score we re­quired."Bai­ley says it will be very dif­fi­cult for Aus­tralia to qual­i­fy for this po­si­tion now. "When we looked at the draw we told our­selves that prob­a­bly one loss and we could go through but now with two loss­es it is very dif­fi­cult. I have not crunched the sit­u­a­tion as yet but what I can say is that we are in a very dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tion."


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