England, the defending champions, crashed to their heaviest T20 defeat of 90 runs in their first round match against India, with off-spinner Harbhajan Singh grabbing four for 12. And that prompted Sammy to raise more hopes with Narine.
“Sunil is our trump card, he’s done well for us in that format, hopefully he could have a big impact on the English batting line-up,” said Sammy. “We’ll definitely look to bowl spin against them, but we have quality seam bowlers upfront also. We have Badree who is another spinner in the line-up so hopefully we will bowl well against England and have a good game.”
Sammy said the West Indies — who have not won a major event since winning the ICC Champions trophy in 2004 — have the self-belief to finally win a trophy.
“The biggest strength for us is the belief in the dressing room that we could win and we left home thinking that. We have quality in the dressing room, it’s up to us to go out and display that out there.”
Published in The Express Tribune, September 27th, 2012.
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