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West Indies manager Joel Garner says Australia’s recent poor form in Perth does not mean the tourists will give anything less than their best in the third Test starting on Wednesday…
“If you are going to play in a cricket game and you’re not confident in your ability, or what you got to do, then don’t bother turning up,” he said.
“But we have to be conscious of what is needed and how we go about doing our business.
“I don’t really look at the records too much because you tend to get carried away.”
He said the Australians are always going to be a threat, no matter where the game is played.
“I know Australia want to also play to the best of their ability and continue in their winning mode,” he said.
“Like everybody else, we’ll be very wary of them.
“I won’t say we’ll be overawed, but we will be going to compete…”
“It is very important that all the fellas come out and play to the best of their ability. I think that if you have a collective effort on the part of the players then yes, you will get a result…”
He said inexperienced spinner Sulieman Benn needed to keep a brave face on a WACA pitch that will follow tradition as a paceman’s paradise.
“I think that was a wake-up call for him – one day on top, the next day not there, but you have to keep fighting,” he said.
“I would say he is also an important member of the team and you have to contribute to the overall scheme of things…”
“We’ve built some momentum coming out of the first Test into the second, we’ve made one or two mistakes but I think we could have done things a little differently…
“It is 15 sessions of cricket that we’ve got to play and if we can play 15 sessions of cricket and be competitive then the possibility also exists that we can get a result.”
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