World T20: No need to panic, Sammy cautions
Dhaka: West Indies captain Darren Sammy said there was no need to press the panic button in the wake of the loss to India in the team's opening match of the World Twenty20 championship. Chris Gayle struggled to 34 off 33 balls while Lendl Simmons got 27, as West Indies were restricted to 129 for seven off their 20 overs.India then paced their innings nicely to reach their target with two balls to spare, with opener Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli getting half-centuries.“We just didn't respond well enough to their spinners - round one goes to India. We didn't bat well and we still got to 130,” Sammy said.“We will take heart from that but we never kicked off in the innings. Their batsmen were shackled by the new ball seam duo of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami before left-arm spinner Ravi Jadeja and Man-of-the-Match leg-spinner Amit Mishra derailed the innings with incisive spells.And though the Windies struck early in the India innings to remove opener Shikhar Dhawan without scoring in the first over, their bowlers failed to find the huge effort needed to pull off a come-from-behind victory.“In the bowling department, though we didn't bowl as well as we could be we took it down to the end.
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