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There was only one candidate for player of the match, in Shai Hope.

And following his unbeaten match-winning 102, the skipper spoke about the victory and consolidating the innings at the start of the run chase.
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00:00What were you thinking at 5 for 2?
00:03That it's going to be a tough chase.
00:04But, you know, once you chase in here in India,
00:06you always give yourself a challenge.
00:08You always think you win the game,
00:09regardless of what score is on the board.
00:11But 5 for 2 will always going to be challenging.
00:13At what point did you think, yes, we can?
00:17Well, we got that partnership there with myself and Rogman.
00:19We just got some more input into the innings.
00:21And then, obviously, I'm sure Fane came and did what he did.
00:24Playing really well with the bat now.
00:26And it just gave us that spark that we needed
00:28to get over the line today.
00:30Tell us a little bit about your innings as well.
00:33Because you started off big.
00:34And then when Chef Fane Rutherford was going big,
00:36you had the best seat in the house.
00:38You were watching from the other end.
00:39You got, what, 33 and a partnership with 120.
00:41Was that how you decided you'd play?
00:43That Chef Fane takes the big ones
00:44and you'd stay back to finish if required?
00:46Yes. The thing about cricket,
00:48I really believe that we need to bat a lot better in partnerships.
00:51It's something that we tend to lap every now and again.
00:54But sometimes you just got to sit back, as you say,
00:56and watch watching playing shots.
00:58In that situation there, as long as we kept going at the rate
01:00to keep up with the game,
01:02then I didn't need to take any unnecessary risks.
01:04I thought that we were going really nicely.
01:06So just about calculating that chase as best as we could in the back end.
01:09Well, we've got some fun.
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