{"id":99882,"date":"2025-10-13T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/west-indies-fightback-sign-of-good-things-says-campbell-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:58:13","slug":"west-indies-fightback-sign-of-good-things-says-campbell-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/west-indies-fightback-sign-of-good-things-says-campbell-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies fightback ‘sign of good things’, says Campbell | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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West Indies opener John Campbell on Monday said his and Shai Hope’s centuries in their fightback against India in the second Test were a good sign for struggling Caribbean cricket.<\/span><\/p>\n

Campbell made 115 in his first Test ton and put on 177 runs with Hope, who hit 103, to revive West Indies after India made the visitors follow-on at Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n

West Indies slipped to 35-2 in their second innings but posted 390 all out to hand India a victory target of 121 on day four.<\/span><\/p>\n

The left-handed Campbell and right-handed Hope steered West Indies into the lead before Justin Greaves (50 not out) and number 10 Jayden Seales (32) put on 79 runs for the last wicket.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I think it was a great effort by the batsmen in the second innings,” Campbell told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Batting over 100 overs, that’s a big plus for us against quality bowlers and a challenging pitch as well. We’re all hoping that it is signs of good things to come.”<\/span><\/p>\n

West Indies, who were 248 all out in their first innings, have suffered batting flops in recent times including being bundled out for 27 — the second lowest Test total — at home against Australia earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

They suffered a 3-0 Test whitewash to Australia and face a 2-0 defeat in India after they lost the opener by an innings and 140 runs.<\/span><\/p>\n

India finished the day on 63-1<\/a>, needing another 58 runs to sweep the series, but Campbell has kept up his hopes.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Well, as we saw the latter part of the day, the wicket was a little bit up and down,” said Campbell. “Who knows what a few early wickets might do in the morning.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Campbell reached his ton with a six off Ravindra Jadeja but fell to the left-arm spinner lbw while attempting a reverse sweep.<\/span><\/p>\n

“At that time I just thought a shot was on,” Campbell said in defence of his shot selection. “Just a little bit of a miscalculation on my part.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI: West Indies opener John Campbell on Monday said his and Shai Hope’s centuries in their fightback against India in the second Test were a good sign for struggling Caribbean cricket. Campbell made 115 in his first Test ton and put on 177 runs with Hope, who hit 103, to revive West Indies after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/afp1760366945-0\/afp1760366945-0-640x480.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}