'We prepared ourselves well for winning' - Anas

DZCC Personel Advisor Mohammed Anas has said he is elated with his maiden series victory - 2-1 over Raffals D Hotel - and is pleased that batsmen apart from Mohammed Faris & Mohammed Hillal played important roles in the success.Dubai Zahirians lost the Jumeirah Battle and the first Game in last series but bounced back to win two matches in a row.

"Any time you win a series it is obviously a special moment. Rafals Dubai aren't rated highly, but neither are we so we couldn't have taken them for granted and we didn't take them for granted," Anas told, "We knew they were going to put up a good fight, but we sort of steeled ourselves for that. We prepared ourselves well for winning. Everybody in the dressing room, especially all those guys who were in Jumeirah when it was really difficult, are obviously very happy now with what we have done and achieved in this series."

"The Srilankan fans were obviously expecting better from us and we had to dig deep," Anas said. "It was good to see, apart from Faris, other batsmen making contributions and getting us over the line. Hillal did it on a couple of occasions and Mohammed Fayaz got an opportunity to go up the order and bat and show us what he can do." Anas said a key problem was the team's inability to win by a big margin when the opportunity presented itself: Dubai Zahirians lost six wickets while chasing small targets in each of the last two matches.

"Of course, we talked about winning handsomely and we were in a position to win handsomely one week ago [ Friday] and we sort of let it slip and the same thing again today [last friday] where we probably could've lost two or three wickets and won easily," Anas said. "But at the end of the day, a win is a win for a team like this which has found winning difficult over the last couple of series. "We will take our wins, but we also know that one [series] win doesn't make us a champion team. We got to keep growing as a team. We got to keep developing and learning from the little silly mistakes that we make so that when we get into other tough series, we would know how to handle ourselves in those situations."