Coach of the West In­dies crick­et team Phillip Sim­mons has told young open­ing bats­man Ra­jen­dra Chan­dri­ka that he has to un­der­stand that some­times you fail, then to suc­ceed.

Chan­dri­ka who made his de­but in the Test against Aus­tralia which end­ed yes­ter­day failed to score in both in­nings.

The right-han­der got iden­ti­cal dis­missals in both in­nings, dri­ving at de­liv­er­ies an­gled across him and get­ting caught at gul­ly.

Chan­dri­ka got in­to the Test side af­ter hit­ting 75 against the Aus­tralians, play­ing for the WICB XI in the warm-up clash at the Sir Viv Richards ground in An­tigua.

He be­came the sec­ond West In­di­an in the his­to­ry of Test crick­et to col­lect a pair of "ducks" on Test de­but.

The oth­er was Ja­maican off-spin­ner Alf Valen­tine who failed to score in both in­nings of the fa­mous 1950 Test match against Eng­land at Old Traf­ford. Speak­ing on the fact Sim­mons said: There are two things that I said to him, he has to un­der­stand that many men made bad starts to their Test ca­reer and end­ed up be­ing great play­ers. In sports some­times you have to fail to suc­ceed. You look at Michael Jor­dan who was not good at the be­gin­ning of his ca­reer and end­ed up be­ing great.

"The oth­er thing he has to un­der­stand that is he can bat, or else he would not have been on the team. He has to keep that con­fi­dence in him­self, cor­rect his flaws and move for­ward in his ca­reer."

Chan­dri­ka would take heart from the fact that Sri Lan­ka open­er Mar­van At­a­p­at­tu who got one run from his first six in­nings, in­clud­ing two pairs and five 'ducks' and went on to play 90 Test match­es, scor­ing 5,502 runs with 16 Test hun­dreds at an av­er­age of 39.02.

A to­tal of 38 bats­men have been dis­missed for a pair on their de­but in Test crick­et.