da jogodeouro： India had a slight scare ahead of their triangular one-day seriesmatch against West Indies tomorrow with captain Saurav Ganguly runningmild temperature today
29-Jun-2001India had a slight scare ahead of their triangular one-day seriesmatch against West Indies tomorrow with captain Saurav Ganguly runningmild temperature today.Ganguly, who ended his run-drought with a 85-run knock in the previousgame against Zimbabwe, did not come out for practice today but teammanager Chetan Chauhan was confident that the captain would be fit fortomorrow’s game. “He should be alright tomorrow,” Chauhan said.However, VVS Laxman, who sat out in the previous game with a fingerinjury in the first match against Zimbabwe, has been ruled out fortomorrow’s game as well. “He is not 100 per cent fit. He can stillfeel the pain in his finger and we would give him rest,” Chauhan said.”He should be fit for the remaining two games of the competition, onJuly 4 and the final on July 7,” he said.Chauhan confirmed that pacemen Ashish Nehra and Ajit Agarkar wouldskip tomorrow’s match.”All the others who have not played so far will get a game tomorrow.Debasish Mohanty, Reetinder Singh Sodhi and Harvinder Singh are all inthe starting line-up,” he said.West Indies captain Carl Hooper said his side was looking forward totake on India who appear a very strong team at the moment.”Obviously, the way the competition has gone, Zimbabwe is down at themoment and we want to do well against India,” Hooper said.”We expect India to be a strong opposition, certainly better thanZimbabwe – without meaning disrespect to the latter – and we willfight all the way,” he said.Hooper said it has been apparent in the tournament that the teamwinning the toss puts the opposition in to bat.”It is because it is winter here. There is heavy dew in the night andthe wicket has early moisture. The ball certainly does a bit in thefirst hour and that’s why the opposition choose to insert the otherside in to bat,” the skipper said.But West Indies won their first match against Zimbabwe by a convincing27-run margin after being put into bat.”We have gained confidence from that win and I feel these are goodtracks to bat provided you can see off the first 8-10 overs,” he said.Hooper said he would not mind playing two spinners against theIndians, even though the latter have the reputation of havingoutstanding players against spin bowling. “Spin or seam, we got tobowl well on these tracks. We have got two spinners to be thrown atthe opposition should the need arise,” Hooper, who himself is aneffective off-spinner, said.Hooper said even though two of his fast bowlers, Reon King and MervynDillon, did not bowl well in the opening match, he did not want to beharsh on them. “I do not want to be harsh on them. They are stillfinding their feet. Reon has come after a long gap into the side whileDillon has had problems with his line and length in one-dayinternationals,” he said.