Jamshedpur: For West Indies skipper Carl Hooper there could not have been a more fascinating start to the One-day series against India but the Guyanese admitted the break in the game at a crucial stage following crowd trouble had threatened to spoil his team's chances of victory.

"The break did not help at all. The interruption broke the momentum," Hooper said after West Indies snatched a thrilling four-wicket victory off the last ball in the first of the seven-match One-day series.

"But the boys batted brilliantly, total credit to them. It was good to see (Ramnaresh) Sarwan knock off the winning runs in the end," Hooper said.

The West Indies skipper said since the "outfield was fast and the ground small and also teams have had big successful run chases here, we knew if we played well we could do it".

However, he conceded that his bowling could have been tighter. "We gave away 20-30 runs more to the Indians. We could have bowled and fielded better."

Saurav Ganguly tried to be positive in defeat saying the team "fought pretty well to stay in the game".

"We batted well. I thought 283 was a winning total but we could not defend it," he said.

Ganguly felt the team lacked in the bowling department. "The track supported spin bowling but our spinners did not bowl well."

However, the Indian skipper said there was still lot of cricket to be played in the series and his team would definitely come back.

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