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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

WI look to stop Indians from 3-0 sweep

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The West In­dies will go in­to the fourth and fi­nal Sea­grams Test to­mor­row look­ing to pre­vent In­dia from com­plet­ing a 3-0 se­ries win, which will take them to the top of the world in the Test crick­et rank­ings.

In­dia needs to win to reach the top. The West In­dies are lan­guish­ing at num­ber eight in the rank­ings and will be hop­ing that they can get a win to at least nar­row the se­ries 2-1.

In­dia won the first Test in An­tigua while the sec­ond in Ja­maica end­ed in a draw and the In­di­ans pre­vailed again in St Lu­cia on the week­end.

West In­dies cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er blamed the bats­men for his team's po­si­tion. "Our bat­ting has been our let down. The bowlers have been get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter. In the last Test, they did a good job and we will be hop­ing for more from them in this Test.

"The bat­ters must take re­spon­si­bilty for the poor show­ing. I am not sure what we have to do to cor­rect the flaws but I think one thing is that we as bats­men have to put a heavy price on our wick­et and be pa­tient."

West In­dies trained at the Queen's Park Oval yes­ter­day af­ter tak­ing the day off on Mon­day and will re­turn to the venue again to­day to con­tin­ue prepa­ra­tions.

The In­di­ans al­so had a work­out and mid­dle or­der bats­man Ajinkya Ra­hane says they will be look­ing to dom­i­nate. "Mood has been fan­tas­tic in the dress­ing room. Our goal is to play at­tack­ing crick­et and dom­i­nate West In­dies here. We have been play­ing good crick­et and it is im­por­tant to fin­ish well.

"Three-ze­ro will be very good and our long term goal is to be the num­ber one Test team. But it is im­por­tant to stay in the present mo­ment. As Vi­rat Kohli said ear­li­er, we want to ex­press our­selves in the mid­dle. That means we want to dom­i­nate here again like we did in the first three Tests.

"We have dom­i­nat­ed every sin­gle day in this se­ries and dom­i­nat­ed every sin­gle Test so far. So it is im­por­tant to be in that process reg­u­lar­ly and think about achiev­ing that no.1 Test sta­tus as a team."

Tick­et sales for the match have been slow but is ex­pect­ed to pick up to­day ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cials from the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB).


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