West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran rued his team’s inability to keep India quiet in the final few overs as the hosts lost the second ODI here on Sunday by two wickets.

The spin gamble

“We lost it in the last overs. Axar played well. We didn’t hold our nerve. We couldn’t keep things down in the end. It got easier to hit the spinners. We gambled with [left-arm spinner] Akeal [Hosein] against the left-handers. One wicket would have opened up things,” said pooran.