JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC- West Indies players are eagerly looking forward to the first outing on their two-month tour when they come up against the South Africa Invitational XI in a three-day warm-up match, starting tomorrow.
According to skipper Denesh Ramdin, the Windies will use all 15 players in the squad for the match which will be played at Willowmore Park in Benoni.
“We will try to use everyone in all departments,” said Ramdin in an interview with WICB Media after yesterday’s gym session.
“Our batters should try and bat as long as possible and if we have to bowl try to give all the bowlers a good run to see where we are as a team cause it’s very important that we acclimatized in these conditions”.
The visitors were kept indoors yesterday due to rain and the captain is hoping they can get a full match as they prepare for the upcoming three-match Test Series against South Africa.
“The couple days that we practiced they was a lot of bounce a lot of sideways movement. There was a lot of grass on the pitch. I think our batsmen coped quite well last couple days that we had and our bowlers bowled in the right areas,” said Ramdin.
