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Fresh disconnected a commanding triumph implicit Zimbabwe astatine the Wankhede Stadium, West Indies skipper Shai Hope banked connected the Indian Premier League acquisition of his teammates to travel successful useful for Thursday’s Super Eight clash with South Africa successful Ahmedabad.
South Africa has enjoyed the comfortableness of familiarity, being based successful Ahmedabad done the T20 World Cup and playing 4 of its 5 matches astatine the Narendra Modi Stadium. West Indies, successful contrast, volition beryllium turning up astatine the venue for the archetypal clip this edition. Hope, however, is hoping to negate the disadvantage.
“It’s surely a factor, but having said that, you’ve inactive got to play (good) cricket connected the day,” Hope said connected Monday nighttime aft the West Indies crushed Zimbabwe by 107 runs here.
“Most of the guys successful our squad person played successful Ahmedabad respective times. A batch of them person been progressive successful the IPL, immoderate adjacent against India there, truthful it wouldn’t beryllium alien to us.”
The skipper acknowledged that extended familiarity with a venue successful a abbreviated tourney tin connection an edge. “When you play astatine a venue for truthful galore games successful a abbreviated span, you would person an advantage. That’s the reality,” helium admitted. “But I don’t deliberation that deters america from what we are trying to do. We are inactive going to play the aforesaid cricket we person been playing.”
For Hope, the cardinal lies successful swift assessment.
“That’s going to beryllium the biggest happening for that brushwood — assessing arsenic rapidly arsenic we can,” helium said. “Especially erstwhile astir of (our) games person been, present successful Wankhede and Kolkata”.
