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Dhoni warns India teammates against being complacent

Updated on: 28 June,2009 08:55 AM IST  | 
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India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was unhappy with his players' complacency despite their 20-run win over West Indies in Friday's first one-day international at Sabina Park

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India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was unhappy with his players' complacency despite their 20-run win over West Indies in Friday's first one-day international at Sabina Park.

Yuvraj Singh's fine innings of 131 off 102 balls led India to 339 for six, and they seemed to be cruising to victory with West Indies at 250 for seven.

But David Bernard and Denesh Ramdin kept things interesting until they were bowled out for 319 in the penultimate over, much to the annoyance of Dhoni.





"That's the mistake we committed and hope we won't commit it again.

"If you look at the scoreboard it says we won by 20 runs but it was much closer than that."

Dhoni hailed the contribution of Yuvraj, saying: "He has been brilliant. We rely a lot on him. He bats at number four and gets big runs."

Yuvraj admitted he struggled to work out the pace of the pitch at first.

"For the first 20 balls I was struggling, but when I got through the first 25, 30 runs I was confident," he said.
"As I got going I got momentum and played a few shots."

West Indies skipper Chris Gayle felt his side could have won on another day.

"A bit of luck and anything could have happened," he said. "We're looking forward to (the second ODI on) Sunday and hopefully we can square the series.
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