Bridgetown (Barbados), May 08: Handed a sound thrashing by Australia in their opening Super Eight match, India will have to quickly sort out their batting woes as they take on the West Indies in a do-or-die contest in the Twenty20 World Cup at the Kensington Oval here tomorrow.
Like the Indians, west Indies are also faced with a must-win situation, as another defeat would virtually put them out of contention for a place in the semifinals.
Fortunately for Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men, the islanders do not have a lethal pace battery like the Australians. Kemar Roach may have troubled Ricky Ponting on bone-hard wicket Down Under, but he is not accurate like Dirk Nannes or Shaun Tait.
So the element of pace and bounce will not impact the Indian batsmen who had surrendered meekly to the Aussies’ pace quartet.
–PTI