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Hyderabad, Sep 19 (IANS) Trinidad and Tobago captain Darren Ganga Monday praised his spinners for the victory against Ruhunu in the opening game of the qualifying round of Champions League T20 and said the win will improve confidence of the team in the games ahead.

“It is too close for comfort. We need to take care at top of the order and how we approach things to change the momentum of the game,” he told reporters after his side defeated Ruhunu by five wickets at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here.

Ganga believed the spinners did the trick for the team. “We have got some experienced slow bowlers. They have done tricks for us time and time again,” he said.

The captain of the Caribbean team said the track was not easy to bat on. “It was a bit challenging. Some balls kept low.”

He was all praise for Darren Bravo and Sherwin Ganga, whose unbroken sixth wicket partnership of 63, helped the team win the game. “Bravo knew what exactly his role was and Sherwin also played well,” he said.

The captain, who scored 17 runs, said he tried to change the momentum of the game. “We did not get boundaries in the initial overs and changing the momentum was my attention. T20 is all about understanding what is happening and trying to change the momentum.”

“We should have scored at least 160 runs,” said Ruhunu’s T.N. Sampath. The team from Sri Lanka was all out for 138 in 20 overs.

He attributed the defeat to the failure to score in last few overs, especially the 20th that saw Ruhunu losing four wickets, including three to run outs.

“We also missed run outs in their innings,” Sampath said and hoped that the team would learn from the defeat and improve its performance in the next game against Leicestershire on Wednesday.