West Indies all-rounder, Roston Chase is throwing his support being West Indies’ batsmen to home in on England’s 469 for 9 declared first innings total.
Despite the imposing total, during a virtual press conference yesterday following the close of play on day two, Chase stated “I would never say 400 odd is beyond us with the quality of players we have and the way we played in the first game, this wicket is not as quick as the first innings so you have a little of time to adjust unlike the first innings where the ball was swinging around a bit so I’m backing our players to get 400 or even close to it to put England in a position and place to decide what they are going to do.”
Chase posited that West Indies will need to take a page out of England’s book and approach the total with patience and grit. Chase namedropped Dominic Sibley who batted over nine hours while facing 372 balls and scoring 120. Sibley forged a 260-run fourth wicket partnership with Ben Stokes who made 176.