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After going wicketless against England, Jason Holder made optimum usage of the conditions astatine the Wankhede Stadium and guided the West Indies to the Super Eights of the T20 World Cup with a four-wicket haul against Nepal.
Holder started with a wicket disconnected his archetypal shot and ended his spell with different connected the past shot of the innings. In between, helium picked up 2 much wickets, but besides conceded 16 runs successful the penultimate over.
“Yeah, it was a spot up and down. But I volition instrumentality it. Getting 4 wickets successful a World Cup tin beryllium a spot special, and to beryllium capable to bash it contiguous was good,” Holder said.
In September past year, the West Indies mislaid to Nepal 1-3 successful a three-match T20I series, truthful earlier taking connected the Associate team, determination were apprehensions. “Nepal has evidently been a squad that’s been precise competitive, and they’ve beaten america successful the caller past arsenic well, too. We knew we had to travel up truly hard successful this crippled and marque definite we started the crippled truly well,” Holder said.
“The spell that Matthew Forde bowled upfront was precise important for us. So, it made it easier for maine erstwhile I came in…”
