da realbet： The man who propelled Barbados to the final of this year’sRed Stripe Bowl believes the team is on a mission
Haydn Gill13-Oct-2001The man who propelled Barbados to the final of this year’sRed Stripe Bowl believes the team is on a mission. And hetook the lead role yesterday.Floyd Reifer came to the pitch in the semifinal at theKaiser ground in Jamaica yesterday, with Barbados in deeptrouble on 24 for three, after surprisingly deciding to batafter winning the toss against Trinidad and Tobago.The former West Indies player then took the match in hishands, combining patience and superb strokeplay to compilean unbeaten 104, his maiden ton in regional limited oversplay.We are here on a mission. Our mission is to win and at 24for three, someone had to do it, and I said I’m the one. Isaid my prayers and went on to do the job, Reifer said afterhis memorable unbeaten century.The manager talked about partnerships at the team meeting.We’ve been stressing that for the whole tournament. Thefirst thing we had to do was look for a partnership and gofrom there, added the 29-year-old left-hander.Team coach Hendy Springer spoke highly of the victory, whichwas Barbados’ seventh on the trot against Trinidad andTobago at this level.This was a good win for Barbados. We came here this morningto win, Springer said.We had a good, long talk last night to the guys abouttactics, opposition, keeping pressure in place.Everybody contributed. The majority of the guys played theirrole, which is what we want to do.Reifer is one of those experienced Barbadian batsmen who hasbeen targeted for his inconsistency in recent seasons, butno one could fault him yesterday for anything.With steadfast determination, he diligently dug Barbados outof a deep hole with a maiden century. If he has ever battedbetter at this level, it would have been on another planet.He never once lost his cool or attempted anything silly andwhen he arrived at his first century for Barbados since1997, his emotions suggested that a burden on his shouldershad been lifted. Reifer waved his bat with the fury ofheavyweight boxer, banged his chest in the area where theBarbados flag was printed on his shirt, punched the air andlooked to the heavens.