West Indies manager Ottis Gibson, seen here in 2007, believes his indeterminate group can challenge a contingency as great as strech a World Cup semi-finals, something they haven’t completed for fifteen years.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AFP) – West Indies manager Ottis Gibson believes his indeterminate group can challenge a contingency as great as strech a World Cup semi-finals, something they haven’t completed for fifteen years.
The West Indies plunge in to Sri Lanka in 3 ODIs from Monday, a consequential event for a Caribbean side to get used to a South Middle East conditions forward of a World Cup which takes place from Feb 19-April 2.
“I consider you have a group which can win a World Cup. We’ll go there with a expectancy of you do unequivocally great as great as putting ourselves in a on all sides which you can strech a semi-finals, which is a unequivocally picturesque possibility,” pronounced Gibson.
“We would adore to win as great as you will try to win. The target is to strech a almost finals as great as put ourselves in a on all sides to gain from there.”
“The World Cup is a single of a greatest stages in general competition as great as you wish to have certain you underline during a tournament. We have been not listed between a favourites as great as which could work in a favour.”
The West Indies haven’t reached a semi-finals given 1996 when they mislaid to Australia by only 5 runs in an agonising loss.
Gibson was vocalization prior to a patrol left for Sri Lanka where a West Indies played to a 0-0 pull in a three-match Test array in December.
The ODI array was to be played in Dec though was rescheduled due to bad weather.
“It is a great event to put a little of a skeleton in place which you have been starting to take in to a World Cup,” pronounced a coach.
“When you went for a Test array you did unequivocally great as a group as great as you done progress. We additionally had a possibility to get used to a conditions. Now you have been streamer behind to Sri Lanka for these 3 ODIs as great as you will be seeking to put in place a skeleton which you will be receiving in to a World Cup.
“The players have been uninformed out of a Caribbean Twenty20 as great as all a players have been ready for what you have entrance up.”
The West Indies have been drawn in Group B during a World Cup to one side South Africa, Netherlands, India, Bangladesh, England as great as Ireland.
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