Copy Chanderpaul, Sammy tells batsmen

KOLKATA,  (Reuters) – West Indies’ spin-wary  batsmen should look to Shivnarine Chanderpaul to learn how to  tackle the Indian spinners in the ongoing test series, visiting  captain Darren Sammy said today.
The Indian spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha  bagged 16 out of the 20 West Indian wickets in the first test in  Delhi, which India won by five wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the  three-match series.
Apart from left-hander Chanderpaul, who scored 118 in the  first innings and top-scored with a 47 in the second, most of  the West Indies batsmen struggled against spin on a low and slow  Feroz Shah Kotla pitch.
“The way Chanderpaul batted, got a hundred, when you are  positive to spin, it is effective,” Sammy told reporters on the  eve of their second test.
“The team should look to do that more often, be cautious,  show them the respect they deserve, but look to not go into our  shell.
“We let them dictate too much to us and it took the  experience of Chanderpaul to show us how to play on the pitch.  We hope to take a page out of his book and execute it.
“We will look to counterattack, but also be more selective  because it is test cricket and we still need to bat time.”
The visitors lost the last match despite taking a 95-run  lead in the first innings and Sammy said their hopes in the  series would depend on how they seize the key moments.
“Despite the result, we did basically control the first two  days of the first test… it took a lot of experience from that  Indian batting lineup and maybe had we batted better in the  second innings it would have been a different ball game,” he  said.
“The camp is not down, we still have the belief that once we  could win the key moments of the game, which for us was losing  15 wickets for 220 runs, that was the key period of the match…
“All of us saw the test match between Australia and South  Africa… How one session can affect the entire test match.
“It is about capitalising on the key moments. Hopefully we  can do it in this test match and bounce back. We never said it  would be easy coming to India. It is difficult but not  impossible.”
The pitch at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens will aid spinners and  West Indies are seriously considering playing an extra spinner  on Monday, Sammy said.
Off-spinner Shane Shillingford could replace paceman Ravi  Rampaul, who skipped practice today as he was unwell.
“We will definitely consider the option of the other spinner  we have in the line-up (Shane) Shillingford. It is a wicket that  will help spinners like you would expect (in India),” Sammy  said.