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After doing his part to keep the ODI series alive Akeal Hosein says the job isn't done yet...

While happy to get the team home, Hosein admitted the third and final ODI will be tough acknowledging Bangladesh's strength on home soil.
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00:00Well, the West Indies had a few scary moments in the match against Bangladesh.
00:04All-rounder Aqil Hussain had been in the mix of it all.
00:07I don't think I have anything left in me again, buddy.
00:09Got to the hotel at 4 a.m., but it's part of the job.
00:13And once you commit to something and once you give your word,
00:16you better be ready to turn up and give 100% no excuses.
00:20And I almost messed it up, but thankfully, you know, I took the team home in the end.
00:26He explained his bowling tactics in the Super Over.
00:28It's a tricky pitch. It's not one that is turning at a fair pace.
00:33The ball is jumping a bit.
00:34So for me, to the left-hander was definitely to make him hit square.
00:38He's quite a powerful guy, so I think that if he has arms, he can hit through the line easy.
00:42So for me, it was just trying to spin the ball from close as possible on a good length
00:49and force him to hit square because that square boundary was quite big.
00:52He also explained why it was better to bowl a historic five spinners.
00:56I mean, yeah, when you look at its surface and what it's doing,
01:00it makes little sense asking your fast bowlers to run up and exert that kind of effort to get results on that pitch.
01:09We do have a number of quality spinners and really impressed with Alec Atenes today as well.
01:14You know, he goes down as a part-timer, but at the end of the day, discipline is key.
01:18And that's all he did today for us.
01:20He was disciplined.
01:21He stuck to the plan.
01:23He stuck to what we ask of him.
01:25And he just stayed stump to stump and it paid off.
01:27So on surfaces like these, you have to be proactive and, you know, try and pick the best 11.
01:34Whether it be the best bowling combination or your batting combination,
01:37if you can see today, we stuck the left-right combination.
01:39So it's all about doing what requires to get home to win that match.
01:45So have they figured out how to play on the pitch?
01:47I won't say we have cracked the code.
01:49I think we need to show a lot more batsmanship, especially from the maybe top half.
01:56You know, it's quite a difficult job to ask the lower order to hang in against, you know, some good spinners.
02:02And obviously it's a fairly used ball as well.
02:07So I think we need to learn from this game.
02:10We look like we had it covered from early on and we just, you know, took it for granted and allowed them to get back in the game.
02:17So that's one wrong that we have to fix.
02:19And I think once we do that and we can set up the game, hopefully we can win that third one easier.
02:25Sergio Dufour, TV6 Sport.
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