TINO Best is determined to continue winning games for Hampshire in the Natwest T20 Blast.
The fast bowler has taken 13 wickets at 22.76 in his first three first-class games and is focused on being a match-winner when he plays his first game for two years in the shortest format tonight.
“Every format suits me,” Best said. “My uncle [former West Indies batsman Carlisle Best] told me, you don’t want to be a Test cricketer, you want to be a cricketer.
“I want to play T20s, I want to play four-day cricket. I just run in and enjoy it.
“With T20 cricket it is about your variations, the slower ball, and your field placing – in first-class cricket you have three or four slips and just bash it in but in T20 you have to change about.
“My T20 record isn’t bad [47 wickets in 45 matches]. Enjoyment is the key.”
When Best was signed to replace Fidel Edwards, he had only played three first-class games in the previous 12 months.
But the 35 year-old former West Indies star has bagged 12 wickets in his last two Specsavers County Championship matches - at just 16.4 apiece.
After his match-winning 4-47 against Notts, he said: “I will have an ice bath, do a gym session and then run in and ball quick on Friday evening.
“I don’t deal in rhythm, I deal with confidence.”
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