#4 – Charles and Samuels provide the platform
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In their pursuit of 123, the West Indies got off to a bad start as Kagiso Rabada uprooted Gayle’s off-stump. But, the other opening batsman, Johnson Charles got the chase going with a refreshingly sensible approach.
Despite wickets falling at the other end, he did not lose his calmness and kept the scoreboard ticking. Marlon Samuels arrived at the crease and took over the responsibility from his junior partner.
He flexed his muscles to thwart the slowness of the surface and kept finding the boundaries to soothe the nerves. Acknowledging the threat posed by the spinners, Samuels distinctly earmarked the pacers to up the ante.
Though he got out at the wrong time, he had done enough to place West Indies at the precipice of victory.
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