Jamaica: Williams worried about Jamaican batting (23 December 1998)
The recent performances in the Jamaica Cricket Association's second trial match at Melbourne Oval for the regional Busta Cup cricket competition were well below standard, chairman of selectors, Basil Williams, said
23-Dec-1998
23 December 1998
Jamaica: Williams worried about Jamaican batting
Versel Thompson
The recent performances in the Jamaica Cricket Association's second
trial match at Melbourne Oval for the regional Busta Cup cricket
competition were well below standard, chairman of selectors, Basil
Williams, said.
"I am worried about our batting considering we did so badly in the
Red Stripe Bowl," Williams said yesterday.
"We are making every effort to deal with that problem before the
final trial match gets underway at Sabina Park on January 7 and hope
that at the end we will see some improvement," he said.
Williams however, is confident that with Christopher Gayle and Wavell
Hinds back from their "fairly successful" West Indies A tour of
India, the Jamaican batting will improve in the next trial game.
"We are hoping that Gayle and Hinds will strenghten our batting in
the final trial match. None of them got 100s on the tour, which is
one of the ingredients of a top-class batsman, but hopefully for us
they will show what they have learnt," he said.
Williams said he was happy with the progress of James Adams who had
to pull out of the South Africa tour because of injury.
"Jimmy Adams batted well in the nets over the weekend and we hope he
will be well enough for the final trial," he said.
"Based on what we have seen so far, the fast bowling is suspect as we
will be without our two most experienced fast bowlers in Courtney
Walsh and Franklyn Rose but the ones we have shown a lot of
enthusiasm and it will be competitive at the end of the next trial to
choose the right combination," Williams said.
Source :: The Jamaica Gleaner (https://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/)