Joint Play­er-of-the-Se­ries in the just-con­clud­ed Test se­ries against Pak­istan, Justin Greaves has be­moaned the fact that his fit­ness lev­el didn’t al­low him to con­tribute more to the West In­dies’ ef­forts in the sec­ond match.

Greaves, who took a maid­en five-wick­et haul in the open­ing Test and was named Play­er-of-the-Match in the West In­dies’ 90-run win, did not bowl a sin­gle ball in the sec­ond match, which Pak­istan won by eight wick­ets on Wednes­day to lev­el the two-match se­ries.

The 32-year-old Bar­ba­di­an was named Play­er-of-the-Se­ries along with Pak­istan cap­tain Babar Azam, af­ter scor­ing 111 runs and tak­ing sev­en wick­ets.

While Greaves, who was al­so named Play­er-of-the-Se­ries in the pre­ced­ing Test se­ries against Sri Lan­ka, was hap­py with his per­for­mances, he said he wished he could have done more for his side to help them earn a his­toric Test se­ries win over Pak­istan.

“I was hap­py that when things got a lit­tle bit dif­fi­cult and things got a bit tricky, I was able to put my hand up in the first game, as well as this game in terms of bat­ting. We had a tricky lit­tle sit­u­a­tion and Ros­ton Chase and I put on a pret­ty good part­ner­ship in the first in­nings, but just un­lucky that I was un­able to bowl to help the team out.

“I’m prob­a­bly just a cou­ple days away in terms of get­ting back to full fit­ness, but re­al­ly, re­al­ly look­ing back at it now, I just re­al­ly wished I could have helped the team a lit­tle bit more,” Greaves said af­ter the match.

“I think my game is in a re­al­ly good place at the mo­ment, but I’m nev­er sat­is­fied. I al­ways want to do bet­ter, al­ways want to help the team.

“We ac­tu­al­ly set out to win both se­ries at home, end­ed up draw­ing this one, so not a bad in­ter­na­tion­al sum­mer for us in terms of Test crick­et, but look­ing back we ob­vi­ous­ly want to win more Test match­es,” he added.

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