By Anthony Foster, Freelance Writer
Lawson
JAMAICAN FAST bowler, Jermaine Lawson, leaves the island this afternoon for India to replace the injured Cameron Cuffy on the West Indies team for the two remaining one-day International cricket matches against the hosts, starting Wednesday night (local time).
Lawson, who played two one-day International matches for the West Indies on their 2001/2002 tour to Sri Lanka got the news while working out with fellow players Gareth Breese and Darren Powell, who were members on the recent Test tour of India at the Jamaica Cricket Association/ Channel 4 Under-23 cricket camp supervised by Bobby Simpson at Sabina Park.
Ironically Lawson, a 20-year-old former Waterford High student, got his first West Indies call-up while participating in Simpson's first training camp in Jamaica last year.
Lawson told The Gleaner yesterday that he was happy to be back in the West Indies one-day team. However, he recognises that in this form of the game there is little room for mistakes.
"In one-day cricket you have to be positive and concentrate a lot, while at the same time you have to contain the batsmen," Lawson, who has taken 53 wickets in 23 first class matches said.
With the West Indies trying to fine-tune their World Cup squad, Lawson said his main focus now is to do his best if called on to play in India.
"I am not focusing on anything apart from what I have been called up for right now, all I want to do is to go out there and to give it my best shot.
"In one-day cricket you don't have time to make errors, batsman will be coming at you so I think that's the hardest part of the game. In Test cricket you get more time to relax and think about what you want to do, but in one-day cricket one has to be well prepared before taking the field," said Lawson, who took two wickets in his two one-day matches.
