"He’s been struggling in the Tests and it’s good to see him in the runs and hopefully we’ll see him go from strength to strength from now on," said Gayle about Sarwan.
"We knew that we needed a partnership at the end of the innings. Denesh came in and played really well," said Sarwan.
"He faced something like 18 balls and got pretty close to 30. He came in and batted really well and we finished the game well."
"It was pretty slow to start with but I think it was important to try and occupy the crease and pick up as many singles as you can to try and get into some rhythm," he explained. "It paid off at the end."
"The guys played some good cricket," said Gayle. "I thought to restrict New Zealand to that total (was a good effort)."
"(Edwards and Miller) both took key wickets – Brendon McCullum early and Ross Taylor. Those guys are very dangerous so getting them early set New Zealand on the back foot."
"I thought we were tremendous in the field and caught pretty well and hopefully we can continue that in the next game because we know New Zealand are going to come hard at us."
"It was hard to build that momentum," said New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori. "When Jacob and Grant were batting they had to turn it over and it’s not the ideal situation where you want to be at the end of a shortened game.
"You want to be able to swing from the hip and see what comes."
"We were just a little short but we got ourselves back in the game once again with some great bowling and fielding."
"I thought we started well again with (opening bowlers) Kyle Mills and Tim Southee but unfortunately just let it slip at the end."
"Even at the death there I thought he (Mills) did a great job. He gave us a chance to pull the game back our way. Just at the end we let it slip a little bit."
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