For Tendai Chisoro and his team-mates, who have seen him play this way for domestic and A sides, his match-winning performance, which included an unbeaten 42 and 2 for 23, was nothing out of the ordinary.
Called upon to open the bowling, 15 minutes after he had been pulling sixes off Jason Holder and Carlos Brathwaite, he struck with his fourth delivery. "Graeme [Cremer] just said: 'Do what you know best'," Chisoro said. "I've done it before, I've opened the bowling in a couple of T20 games and I've been successful, so it was just me doing my normal thing."
At the other end was Sikandar Raza, who had shared an unbeaten 91-run stand with Chisoro, bowling offspin with the new ball. "As soon as we came off, the first thing I asked is 'How long is the lunch break?'," explained Raza. "They said it's only 15 minutes. The next thing you know, the captain and coach got together and they told us 'This is the plan: TC's going to bowl the first one, and you're going to bowl the second one.' And because it's still gripping, and it wasn't drizzling at that moment, we'll see if it turns. And credit to TC, he started so well. Those two wickets in the early overs certainly put us on the front foot."
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