BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Following a double failure in the Guyana Test, West Indies vice-captain Brendan Nash will be hoping to come good when he revisits his happy hunting ground Warner Park for the second Test starting tomorrow.
The usually dependable left-hander scored five and three in the opening Test which West Indies won by 40 runs inside two days last Sunday.
“Coming back here again this year I will be looking for another big score for the team. I didn’t get many in Guyana so I know I will be looking to make a greater contribution in this match,” the Australia-born Jamaican batsman said.
“We did some really good things in Guyana and we will be looking to do well again here. The bowlers were exceptional. (Darren) Sammy led from the front and the others followed. Ravi (Rampaul) got some great wickets for us and (Devendra) Bishoo was also very good in his first match.”
Nash has become a fixture in the West Indies Test side since making his debut in late 2008 against New Zealand in Dunedin.
The 33-year-old scored his maiden Test century four months later against England and then followed up with his second, 114, against South Africa in the second Test at Warner Park.
“Last year when we played here we got a really good batting surface and I managed to get a good century, which was my second century for the West Indies,” he explained.
“We were outplayed by the South Africans in the first match in Trinidad, but we rebounded to get what you could say was a fighting draw here in St Kitts. I felt I batted really well, adding some valuable runs with Shiv (Chanderpaul), who also got a good century.
“Shiv and I put on a very good partnership. There were quite a few runs scored in that match and it was good the way we responded.”
West Indies will be looking to make a clean sweep of the two-Test series by winning the encounter at Warner Park and Nash said the win in Guyana had given the side crucial confidence.
“I rated the performance of the team very high. From a team point of view it as very pleasing. It was a great effort,” he noted.
“We will go into this match with some confidence following what we did in Guyana. We all have the support of each other and we will be looking for another positive result.”
