West Indies debutant Kevin Wickham said on Friday that posting a first-innings total of around 400 against Bangladesh in the second Test at Sylhet would give his side a fighting chance.<\/p>\n
West Indies ended the day at 235\/4 after 70 overs, with play called off due to bad light. Amir Jangoo remained unbeaten on 111, having shared a 131-run fourth-wicket stand with Kevin Wickham, who contributed 61 before being dismissed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I think it’s good for us to try to get to a massive total, probably 400 plus or 350 plus because of the way the surface is playing at the moment,\u201d said Wickham.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s a wicket that you would want to bat once on or give yourself that opportunity that you could bowl twice at these guys,\u201d said Wickham.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we obviously know the pitch would deteriorate a bit. So once we get up to a good total, probably 350 plus, I think that we’re in with a really good chance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Wickham credited Jangoo for guiding him in the middle while adding that he wanted to bat as long as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, first Test innings and there was a bit of nerves around after losing wickets early but my aim was just to bat as long as possible,\u201d said Wickham.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that Bangladesh obviously set some really good fields. Things weren’t going their way for a bit and then they just tried to contain us and tried to build a lot of pressure. So I think that the spinners did a pretty decent job, but as you get in on the pitch it becomes easier, so I wouldn’t say it was an easy task, but when you put down your head and bat, it’s pretty good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that Amir (Jangoo) batted very well. I think that for most of my innings he was guiding me and telling me what Test cricket is all about, just staying patient. The bowling is a lot more consistent, so just trust the defence. And I think that worked very well for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Wickham, who scored heavily in domestic cricket, said that the coach asked him to stay ready as they had some injury concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coach actually told me to stay ready because a few guys weren’t feeling well last night. So basically it was just about getting set and ready for my mind, just in case the opportunity presents itself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd this morning when I came to the ground I was sitting in the dressing room and the coach came to me and told me ‘congratulations’, I’d be making my debut,\u201d he said, adding that it was a dream come true affair for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, it’s always a dream to play Test cricket and once the opportunity presents itself, I make sure that I’m ready and fit to go and grab that opportunity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Indies debutant Kevin Wickham said on Friday that posting a first-innings total of around 400 against Bangladesh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[47816,87479,17266,1721,270735,101,56,54,55,1620,93205],"class_list":["post-825438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-47816","tag-2nd-test","tag-bangladesh","tag-cricket","tag-kevin-wickham","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-west-indies","tag-west-indies-tour-of-bangladesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}