Nothing wrong with wicket: Harbhajan

KINGSTON (Jamaica), July 2: The Sabina Park track had no demons in it, Harbhajan Singh said after picking his second five-wicket haul in the fourth and final Test against West Indies here. The Indian off-spinner said scoring runs on the track, which has already seen 26 wickets fall in two days, was not difficult, provided the batsmen applied themselves. "There is nothing wrong with the wicket. It is a wicket where fast bowlers can hope for wickets, spinners can hope for a bat-pad chance and batsmen too can make runs if they apply themselves," Harbhajan said after the second day's play. "I would say it is the best wicket we have had in the entire series. On other places, you were either going for 2 or 4 runs in an over," he added. Harbhajan said he did not try to do anything different than what he has been doing all these days. "I didn't bowl any special ball. There was no magic ball. It was the same I had bowled in St. Kitts or in my eight years of international career. "This is cricket. Sometimes you toil hard for 50 overs and end up with just one wicket and on other occasions you get five wickets off five overs," he said. The Punjab bowler said India now needed to bat as long as possible to put up a match-winning total on the board. "You can't say any total is safe these days. We know teams have gone on to chase 400 runs. We would need to get more runs to put pressure on them," said the bowler who picked his wickets from just four-odd overs. Harbhajan also gave credit to India's fast bowlers for maintaining pressure on West Indies' batsmen right through the series. "We didn't expect West Indies to fold up so cheaply. But then our fast bowlers have bowled well throughout this series. It's been amazing. They took early wickets, of the likes of Lara and Gayle who have been among the runs in this series." Harbhajan rounded off his comments with a word of praise for his captain Rahul Dravid, who held the innings on both the occasions here. "He is a champion player. Every team would like to have a batter like him. Whenever something special is needed, he is there. Whenever somebody needs to stay at the wicket and get runs, he is there. "I would be happy to finish this tour with a win. But it would not be easy. They too would be up for the challenge." courtesy:timesofindia