da 888casino： Fidel Edwards, the West Indies fast bowler, has said the warm-up match against Auckland helped him regain his rhythm after a back injury forced him out of international cricket for two months
da supremo： Cricinfo staff06-Dec-2008
Fidel Edwards: “We haven’t played Test cricket for a while and the guys have been up for the challenge, even though this is a dead track” © DigicelCricket.com/Brooks La Touche Photography
Fidel Edwards, the West Indies fast bowler, has said the warm-up match against Auckland helped him regain his rhythm after a back injury forced him out of international cricket for two months. Edwards missed West Indies’ triangular Twenty20 series in Canada and ODIs against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi.He picked up 3 for 125 in Auckland’s first innings in the three-day match which was headed for a draw on Sunday. “My rhythm has been good,” Edwards was quoted as saying in New Zealand’s . West Indies used ten bowlers in trying to contain Auckland, who racked up 587 in their first innings, with captain Richard Jones scoring a maiden double-century.Edwards said it had been tiring to bowl on the flat track but it was a good workout all the same. “We haven’t played Test cricket for a while and the guys have been up for the challenge, even though this is a dead track. Hopefully, our batters will get a good workout because that’s what we really want – for them to get some runs on the table. When we first started we were looking to win this game but I don’t think there’s enough time left to get a result.” West Indies last played a Test in June against Australia.Jones said he declared Auckland’s innings only after tea on day two because he felt sure West Indies weren’t going to set up a game at any stage. “They’re just coming here to practice as well, so I was just working on the basis that they were going to look to bat for the next day and a half so there was no real point,” Jones said.Jones, who played his only Test in 2003, was delighted to get his first double-hundred in 108 first-class games. “It’s fantastic. It’s something that wasn’t in the resume up until today, so to get to that personal milestone was really nice.”
