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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Belief still there says Ramdin

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20150615

West In­dies cap­tain De­nesh Ramdin must be a tired man hav­ing to say the same thing af­ter every se­ries but yes­ter­day he men­tioned that al­though his team lost the se­ries 2-0 against Aus­tralia, there were pos­i­tives to take mov­ing for­ward.

Chas­ing 392 runs for vic­to­ry on the fourth day of the sec­ond Test at Sabi­na Park, West In­dies fold­ed for 114–giv­ing Aus­tralia a huge 277-run win. West In­dies lost the open­ing Test in Do­mini­ca by nine wick­ets to give Aus­tralia a clean sweep, as the Aussies move on to Eng­land for the Ash­es tour.

Ac­cord­ing to Ramdin: I think that the boys showed fight and there are things we can take out of the this se­ries in mov­ing for­ward. We went out against a top team and showed some fight there, I thought that young (De­ven­dra) Bishoo and (Jerome) Tay­lor per­formed well.

Bishoo bowled very well in Do­mini­ca and Tay­lor did the same here, so there are things we can take away with us.

"I think that the ex­pe­ri­ence the young men would have gained against a top all round side like Aus­tralia, would be with them for the rest of their life. The young­sters showed fight and we still have self be­lief in our­selves."

Look­ing at the last match Ramdin added: We had our plans to bat the first hour with­out los­ing any wick­ets but it did not hap­pen and this put us back. We want­ed to bat ses­sion by ses­sion and come back to­mor­row to see how many runs we would have need­ed but it just did not hap­pen."

Mean­while, win­ning Aus­tralian cap­tain Michael Clarke said the West In­dies team and pub­lic just have to be pa­tient.

"You have the tal­ent here and I think that you just have to be pa­tient with the young play­ers and West In­dies crick­et will be back. I think that your coach (Phil) Sim­mons is a great per­son and fan­tas­tic coach and he would take the team for­ward."

He end­ed by say­ing: I en­joyed my time here play­ing crick­et in the Caribbean. Play­ing against the West In­dies is some­thing I al­ways love, Bri­an Lara is my favourite play­er, so any time I am in the Caribbean, I en­joy my­self. (VM)


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