Kingston, June 27: India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni admitted that his teammates got complacent after polishing the top-order of the West Indies, who nearly toppled India in the high-scoring first one-dayer here on Friday.

As the two teams face each other in the second one-dayer here on Sunday, Dhoni knows they will have to tighten things up to keep the pressure on the hosts.

Said Dhoni on Friday, "Most of the guys thought that we have won the game when the Windies were seven wicket down, but it was a mistake and hopefully we wouldn’t repeat that. It was more close than we thought."

The skipper added that handing Ashish Nehra the ball in the closing stage was a gamble which paid off. "It was a gamble. We were thinking of giving that over to an off-spinner or a pacer. Finally we chose a pacer as there were chances of reverse swing," he said.

Dhoni credited Yuvraj’s innings saying "it took the game away from the West Indies". "Once Yuvraj gets in he always gives us a good score with a very superb strike rate. He bats at a very crucial position for us — at number four," he said.

"I think that today’s was a very brilliant innings from him, it really took the game away from the West Indies, especially in the second power play.

"It’s a pleasure to have him in the side because he takes the pressure off the lower-order batsmen," he said.

Losing skipper Chris Gayle felt they should have capitalised on the good start.

"We came close and the effort can’t be faulted for the way we went about it. I think that we had a good start (to the innings) and a couple of the top-order batsmen got good starts, which we should have capitalised on," he said.

"It was a good effort. We batted well. Darren who was making debut was also impressive. Shiv played a good innings at the top," he said.

— PTI