Afghanistan wish for some-more ODIs after sketch West Indies series
Rain heartache: West Indies’ charge of automatically subordinate for a subsequent World Cup became all a some-more formidable due to their drawn array opposite Afghanistan. PHOTO: AFP
GROS-ISLET, SAINT LUCIA: Afghanistan captain Asghar Stanikzai hopes his group will get some-more opportunities to face top-flight cricket nations after their ODI array opposite a West Indies finished in a 1-1 pull on Wednesday.
Steady sleet forced a abandonment of a third and final one-dayer with not a round being bowled during St Lucia’s Darren Sammy Stadium with a array offset during one apiece.
But Stanikzai pronounced he believes his team, who mislaid a T20 array 3-0, did adequate to uncover they merit some-more unchanging matches opposite full member nations of a International Cricket Council.
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“We didn’t play as good as we could have though we suspicion we did adequate to uncover that we merit to play a bigger teams some-more often,” pronounced Stanikzai. “This was good knowledge for us and we can demeanour brazen now to what lies brazen with larger confidence.”
West Indies captain Jason Holder supposed that his group faced a tough challenge. “We were adult opposite it after a initial compare though came behind good in a second and we have shown in a prior array opposite Pakistan that we can contest with a best teams in a universe also,” he commented. “We only need to put a pieces and pieces performances together on a some-more unchanging basement for us to unequivocally pierce adult a rankings in general cricket.”
West Indies are now ranked ninth in ODI’s and should they destroy to strech a tip 8 by a cut-off date of Sep 30 this year, they will have to go by a subordinate contest subsequent year for a 2019 World Cup in England.
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Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan, with total total of 10-44 over a dual ODIs that were played was named Man of a Series.
“This debate was a good knowledge for me entrance out of a Indian Premier League and gives me good certainty relocating brazen with my career as partial of a Afghanistan team,” he stated. “Our subsequent plea is opposite a MCC during Lord’s subsequent month and we wish we can uncover a advantage of this knowledge during that match.”
West Indies now spin their courtesy to hosting India for 5 ODIs and a sole T20I, starting Jun 23 in Trinidad.
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