Ashley Nurse, after his 4-62 and unbeaten 34 helped the West Indies to a 1-0 lead in their Brighto Paints presents the Q Mobile Cup Series against Pakistan, has warned his teammates that the job is not over.
“We have to come back even stronger on Sunday. We can’t rest on this victory,” said Nurse, whose 34 runs came from just 15 deliveries.

The innings helped the West Indies to, for the first time in 32 attempts, successfully chase down a score of more than 300, Pakistan scoring 308-5 in their 50-over allotment.

“We haven’t won in a long time and yes it feels good but the other part is to come and back up this performance with an even more fantastic performance on Sunday and close out the series,” Nurse reminded the young side which he has only recently become a part of.
The off break bowler is already looking at places he can improve tomorrow, saying that while his four wickets were satisfying, there were things he still wanted to improve on.
“My job first and foremost is to bowl and get people out so I was very happy with the wickets, I wouldn’t say I was very happy with the bowling,” he said.

“I bowled some bad balls in between but it was nice to get some wickets and pull back the Pakistan innings. We were really going helter skelter at the back end and it was nice to come back, even in the last 10 and get some wickets.”
Nurse’s innings with the bat began in the nets, where the bowler says he was hitting the ball well. The innings was also made easier by the batsman at the other end.
“Jason was hitting the ball really nicely and I just tried to rotate the strike, give him as much of the strike as possible. I was hitting the ball nicely from in the nets so I know my form was good so I just tried to keep hitting the ball nice and straight and back myself to get the ball to the boundary, other than giving him the strike,” said Nurse.
Nurse also praised the team for its mentality and for the way the earlier batsmen, who were having a tough time, stayed with the game.

“The team morale is really really good. The boys believe in sticking together, we believe in being one big family and as you see, the guys really stayed in the game,” said Nurse.
Nurse was speaking about Evin Lewis’ 47 and Kieran Powell’s 61 at the top of the order, that though not blistering quick, were enough to set a platform for Jason Mohammed, who slammed 91 to anchor the West Indies innings to their first successful chase of over 300.
“Some great knocks from Evin Lewis and Kieran Powell leading up to Jason’s knock. The partnership between him and Jonathan Carter was a really good partnership after losing two quick wickets. I keep saying once we stay in the game and put the bowling under some pressure, with the hitting power we have at the bottom, I really think we will win more games.

(Sports Max)