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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Holder calls on batsmen to own up

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Vinode Mamchan, Senior Reporter
2158 days ago
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India’s Virat Kohli celebrates a century during the ODI match against West Indies at the Queens Park Oval, yesterday.He scored 120.

India’s Virat Kohli celebrates a century during the ODI match against West Indies at the Queens Park Oval, yesterday.He scored 120.

Nicholas Bhajan

Af­ter yet an­oth­er lack­lus­tre per­for­mance by the West In­dies bats­men, led to an­oth­er de­feat at the hands of In­dia, skip­per Ja­son Hold­er is call­ing on the bats­men to take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty dur­ing the post-match press con­fer­ence at the Queen's Park Oval on Sun­day.

West In­dies went un­der to In­dia by 59 runs in the sec­ond match of the MyTeam11 ODI se­ries at the Queen's Park Oval, af­ter throw­ing away a gold­en op­por­tu­ni­ty to win the match. In mid-af­ter­noon set 270 off 46 overs in the rain af­fect­ed match, the West In­dies were 148 for three when they reck­less­ly lost Shim­ron Het­my­er for 18 to be fol­lowed by top-scor­er Evin Lewis for 65. Nico­las Pooran al­so threw his hand away for 42 and the West In­dies crashed to 210 all out.

Hold­er speak­ing af­ter the loss said: "Ex­treme­ly dis­ap­point­ed. We had the game in our hand. We bowled well to come back in the end. The wick­ets in the end cost us. We've got to take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty. One of the main things is when you get in, you've got to go deep. I must com­mend the bowlers. It was very hot and hu­mid, tough con­di­tions to bowl. We've got to take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and own­er­ship as bat­ters."

His op­po­site num­ber the im­pres­sive Vi­rat Kohli said: "Good out­ing with the bat. Ex­act­ly why we want­ed to bat first if you saw the lat­ter half of West In­dies' in­nings. I think the rain helped them in the mid­dle, oth­er­wise, it would have been even tougher to bat. The

mid­dle overs were im­por­tant to string as many dot balls as pos­si­ble. The ball got wet every time it went out in­to the out­field. It was dif­fi­cult to grip. We thought it was a tricky sit­u­a­tion if we didn't get wick­ets there. It was just about stay­ing there, get­ting one wick­et and put pres­sure."

Kohli who scored his 42nd ODI cen­tu­ry (120) was full of praise for young bats­man Shreyas Iy­er who got 71. "Shreyas is a con­fi­dent guy, he's got the right at­ti­tude and made it eas­i­er for me."


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