Du Plessis keen to bat deep to tackle tricky surface

For Darren Sammyand his West Indies team, the pitch didn’t hold too many worries, and the West Indies captain reiterated that sticking to a simple game plan would be the way his team would approach the match. “The pitch that we are going to play on has been covered yesterday and today. I spoke to the groundsman and he gave us a little bit of information about what to expect,” said Sammy.

“Yes we respect the opposition and plan for them but we are more focused on what the West Indies T20 team could do. I’ve said it many times, once we do what we do well, we are a force to reckon with. We are very destructive. Someone at the top of the order has carried their bat throughout. We’ve also being bowling well. On a pitch in Mumbai where the average score on that day was probably 200, we restricted the team to 180. In Bangalore too we bowled really well. We’ve been doing the basics right and in T20, it’s about entertaining and keeping it simple.”