Trinidad, June 4: Leading India in the T20 against West Indies, Suresh Raina was delighted to have started the series on a winning note. India beat WI by 16 runs in the only Twenty20 game of the series that took place at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain.

Raina spoke to the media in a post-match interaction about the game and his team.

Excerpts:

On starting the series with a win

Feeling good, we played really well, especially the bowlers bowled really well; they executed the plan really well today.

On India’s fielding

We have improved a lot. The last couple of months we have had good fielding sessions and this is the best fielding side we got in the last four or five years.

On the absence of some of the big names from the side

We have a lot of youngsters and they have done really well in first-class cricket. We have a new coach also. He’s been talking positive all the time; [he’s] had a couple of meetings with the batsmen and then he just tells the players to look to execute [their] plans. You have to deliver for the team. He has been nice for us. We have a new coach, we have a good fielding coach, Trevor Penney, so I hope we will do well in the one-day series also.

On whether the team was looking forward to the one-day series

Definitely, they all are. It’s an important series for us before the Test series. I hope the guys will do really well.

On the key factor behind the victory

We batted really well. Especially [S Badrinath] Badri and Rohit [Sharma] - they set the foundation for us. Rohit and Badri batted really well, followed by Yusuf [Pathan] and Harbhajan [Singh].