Batsmen need to step up
by CHRIS GAYLE (Diary provided by Digicel)
I have to start this first diary entry for this new Digicel Home Series with something that I have talked regularly about before. What I have always stressed on in the recent past is that our batting needs to do the job, we have to get the runs on the board.
For the last couple of months the bowlers have been doing a terrific job for us. Jerome Taylor, Daren Powel, Fidel Edwards and Dwayne Bravo have been turning up and working hard on the field.
Hopefully we, the batsmen, can get the runs on the board now and give the bowlers something to work with and as a team we can take it from there. It is not going to be easy, we are up against a top class team in Sri Lanka and they have one of the best attacks in the world. The reason I say one of the best attacks is because you have the likes of Chaminda Vaas and the world record holder for the most Test wickets Muttiah Muralitharan.Those two are the main strike bowlers and we all know how experienced those guys are. We are up against it but we are up to the challenge.