Windies way behind but will not surrender, says Corey Collymore

10/06/2018

Though Windies bowling coach Corey Collymore is unhappy with the performance of the team, he still maintains a hard belief in fighting till the end and not surrendering. The tourists are in a deep trouble and need to come with mammoth effort to save the ongoing first Test against India.

Considering the second day score - India declared at 649 for 9, and the tourists ended up in deep trouble at stumps after being reduced to 94/6 in their first innings of the game. Windies are far away from even putting up a fight to save some face in Rajkot."From a bowling point of view, I stressed to the bowlers to have a look and see how well the Indians started. That's something I was talking out, our starts," Collymore reflected at the end of the second's play of the first Test in Rajkot.

"If you look at yesterday, we started too wide and too short. Sherman was on his debut and he is a good lad, I saw him in the U-19s and in some of the practice games and he has got a fantastic record, but to me, it's still gonna [going to] be 22 yards and the lengths don't change. You have to be better at doing that going forward if you have to play Test match cricket better."

Collymore also pinpointed some of the mistakes that the Windies made on tge field from the start of the game. If the bowling had been off the radar, the batting wasn’t anywhere up to the mark either. In the mid play, Shimron Hetmyer’s dismal run-out against India’s spinners.

"What I saw, it's not what you want, especially from your top order, chasing 600-plus. These things happen in cricket, but again I hope our guys definitely learn from it. We can see how well the Indians played, they are accustomed to conditions but there's experience and things we can learn from."

Collymore said the bowlers will learn a lot from the India tour ,"You have to be honest with yourself. India is in the ascendancy and it's only day two, already seriously behind so it's gonna take a mammoth effort for us to pull it back. But again, you don't come to Test match cricket to just surrender."

Windies way behind but will not surrender, says Corey Collymore

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