Vadodara: Undeterred by the five-wicket defeat at the hands of West Indies in the fifth One-day match on Monday, Indian skipper Saurav Ganguly vowed that the team will "get its act together" and come back in the remaining two matches of the series.

Ganguly said he was confident of the team winning the matches at Jodhpur and Vijaywada. "We will get our act together and come back in to the series," he said after West Indies successfully chased India's 290 with five wickets in hand and seven balls to spare to take a 3-2 lead in the seven-match series. Ganguly, however, underlined the need for him and his opening partner Virender Sehwag to bat through responsibly and not throw away their wickets. "The openers will have to do the job. We can't leave things half-way. One of us ought to put on a hundred." On Monday's match, Ganguly said, "pulling back was difficult" once they gave away too many runs in the first 15 overs. "We had to pick up wickets if we were to stay in the game but they played well. I think we should have defended our total as 290 was a good score," Ganguly, who scored 53, said. But triumphant West Indies skipper Carl Hooper said he felt a score of 290 was "perfectly gettable". "In fact after the first 15 to 20 overs, the game was perfectly set up for us," he said. "We wanted to contain the Indians to 270. But 290 also was perfectly gettable," he stated. Though teams batting second have gone on to win matches in this series, Hooper said the team did not lay much emphasis on the toss. "Bowlers on both sides are not bowling well. Pitch has not been assisting them. "We have a lot of in-form batsmen on both sides but the bowlers have been going for runs. They can show better result by bowling wicket to wicket and hope that fielders latch on to the catches offered by the batsmen," he said. Man-of-the-match Wavell Hinds, who hit a quickfire 80 off 61 balls, said the game plan was to accumulate as many runs as possible and have enough wickets in hand in the last 20 overs. "I enjoy batting with Chris Gayle. We have a very good understanding and love each other's game," Hinds, who hit 10 fours and five sixes in his blistering knock, said.
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Hinds, Gayle blitz India; Windies goes up 3-2
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