KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – It’s been two, long hard years since West Indies won a One-day International series against any opposition under any format.
This is why Chris Gayle has placed some value on West Indies’ One-day International series victory over Zimbabwe, and is finding it hard to admit that his side was pretty unconvincing in winning four of the five matches.
West Indies wrapped up the series on Sunday with a four-wicket victory in another low-scoring affair in the fifth and final One-day International at the Arnos Vale Sports Complex.
Gayle praised his side for the determination they have shown to rebound from a disheartening defeat in the first ODI two Thursdays ago at the Guyana National Stadium.
“It’s been a long time since we last won a series, and it feels really, really good to have achieved this,” said Gayle, whose 63 from 41 balls put his on course for victory on Sunday.
“It has been an entire team effort because we started really badly, when we lost the first ODI. But for the guys to have bounced back, and win the series 4-1 was a tremendous effort, and I must commend them for the way they went about it.”
Gayle added: “Hopefully, we can continue [in the winning] vein. We have the Twenty20 World Cup coming up and a home series against South Africa.
“We will have camps put in place and these sorts of things ahead of those series, so hopefully it will all bear fruit and be wonderful for us, and we’ll have some good results.”
West Indies also won the second ODI last Sunday by four wickets at the Guyana National Stadium, the third ODI last Wednesday by 141 runs here, and the fourth ODI by four wickets last Friday also at this venue.
