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Unrepentant Hooper

AFP, Cape Town
West Indian captain Carl Hooper, contemplating an early departure from the World Cup, said he had no regrets about a controversial policy to select only three specialist bowlers.
"We've employed this policy for the past year. If I had to do it all over again I'd do it the same way," said Hooper after a six-run defeat by Sri Lanka at Newlands Friday almost certainly put the West Indies out of the tournament.
"I'm very disappointed. It all looked so promising," added the captain of a campaign which started on a high when his team beat South Africa in the opening
match at the same ground on February 9.
Hooper said there had been no temptation to include more than three fast bowlers in order to take advantage of Sri Lanka's vulnerability against pace on a pitch with good bounce.
He said the fact that Sri Lanka had scored only 228 for six after winning the toss justified the tactics.
"Chasing a score like that, we should have got it," he said.
The West Indian captain refused to blame the fact that his team had to bat second under the floodlights on a ground where sides batting first have now won 15 out of 19 day-night internationals.
"I don't think batting in the evening was a factor, we just batted poorly today," Hooper said.
"I thought we should have got 228 but we didn't come through. We lost wickets at valuable times and no-one did we needed someone to stick around which didn't happen."
Nor did he blame bad luck for the loss of two points in a rained-out game against Bangladesh at Benoni which could prove the tantalising difference between qualifying and going home after the first round.
Hooper said his team only had themselves to blame for their almost certain exit.
"At the beginning of the day it was in our hands to do it," he said.
"But we've lost it. That's it, I think we're out. It was close in the end but a miss is as near as a mile. However, cricket's a funny game and results could go our way." "We're very disappointing but you can't really put these sort of things into words. I honestly thought we'd do much better than this," he said.
"To be knocked out in this manner is hard but cricket's about life and you just have to take it."
Only if two of South Africa, New Zealand and Kenya slip up between Saturday and Monday can West Indies get back into the reckoning when they play their final match against Kenya in Kimberley Tuesday.
Hooper made light of the injury suffered by batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan, who was felled by a short-pitched ball from Dilhara Fernando when he had made 10.
He was taken off on a stretcher, had treatment and X-rays at a nearby hospital and returned to take West Indies close to victory with an unbeaten 46. "I've seen some injuries over the past 13 or 14 years. Once he was up and saying he was fine, it was a case of 'let's get on with it'."