Singh describes West Indies performance as ‘fantastic’

By Delvon McEwan

Returning home from a substandard debut series at the international level, West Indies middle-order batsman Vishual ‘Cheesy’ Singh described the team’s performance as fantastic, noting it was quite an inexperience unit in age and amount of matches played among them, probably the most inexperience in the world.
In a telephone interview with this publication, the petite left-handed batsman spoke about his time in the middle as well as the team’s performance and what could be expected in the future.
The highlight of the series for the Guyana Jaguars’ player was the  display throughout the series despite their challenges.
“I think we did fantastic, to be honest….probably the youngest team; experience wise, age wise. We showed a lot of fight, especially to go into the final match against a team that was number one just a few months back.”
According to Singh, it is quite clear his debut series did not go the way he wanted but it is certainly not the end of him as he plans to bounce back with better results. Nevertheless, he acknowledges there are areas that need correction and will be in contact with the West Indies batting coach Toby Radford and A-team coach Grame West to ensure he remedies his flaws.
The home side lost the Q Mobile series to Pakistan 2-1 as Singh contributed a mere 63 runs from six innings at an unsatisfactory average of 10.50 with a best score of 32, figures he himself would not want to remember, unless he finishes a successful career which started horribly.
The Caribbean side’s next assignment is in England for the summer where they would play a three match Test series prior to the T20I and One Day Internationals. Singh has vast experience in England playing for Sandwich Town in the Kent League for several years.
While there (for the 2010 season) he scored 1077 runs breaking the 20-year-old Kent League record of 1012 runs set by former Australian Test batsman Justin Langer.

However, his chances of making the trip to England is left up to the selectors as he agreed when questioned about the reality of playing there in August-September.
“My chances are surely up to the selectors, I will leave that up to the selectors and like I said I will continue to focus on what I need to do to improve as a cricketer to be able to play in any part of the world.”
The 28 year-old said he needs to look at areas to make some adjustments, so he sees himself having to work harder, probably even harder than before to be productive.
Consistency at the international level is a key factor, especially with one’s focus because if the bowlers are going to be consistent then there is little or no room for lapse in concentration for the batsmen.
Unfortunately, the Pakistani bowlers triumphed over Singh, who scored a responsible unbeaten century (135) for the WICB XI against the tourists prior to the Test series,.
Withstanding his horrific outing in the time middle, Singh described his exposure at the highest level as a dream come through.
“Living a childhood dream and everything I have been living for since I started playing the sport”.
There were criticism of the pitches being more suitable to playing surfaces in Asia that are lower and on the slower side and though the fast bowlers got the best of Singh, he said facing up to the spinners was very challenging on the type of surfaces that were offered.
He is hopeful of West Indies performances in England stating they will fare well because examining the recent series, the young unit performed well in condition that suited Pakistan and there could be an improve feat in England.