MOHALI, India (AP) — Captain Darren Sammy shrugged off an attack on the West Indies team bus with a joke today, but said his squad had been motivated and inspired by adversity it has faced at the World Cup.

“Did something happen there?” Sammy said, smiling, after he was asked by reporters how the team had dealt with the incident in Bangladesh — where fans stoned the West Indies bus after it left Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka after West Indies inflicted a heavy defeat on the home team.

“I think we’ve done quite well. It’s behind us,” Sammy added. “It’s an issue we have put to rest. Our next event is tomorrow against Ireland and we’re solely focusing on that.

“It was quite an unfortunate thing to happen but we’re over that. The guys are up and ready to take on the Irish tomorrow.”

West Indies can close in on the quarterfinals with a third successive win in Group B when it takes on Ireland at Mohali’s Punjab Cricket Association Stadium tomorrow.

A place in the last eight would be a significant boost for West Indies cricket after the squad came to the World Cup in poor form, lost three important players to injury and was then left shaken by the incident in Bangladesh.

While Sammy said the bus stoning had played its part in bringing the team closer together, he picked out the tournament-ending knee injury to Dwayne Bravo in the first group game against South Africa as the most significant moment.

“It was a turning point for us in this tournament,” Sammy said. “Our hearts are with him (Bravo) and his spirit is with us and moving us forward in this World Cup.

“Losing him was a massive disappointment … (but) the player he is and the inspiration he can bring on that field still rubs off on us.”

Sammy said players were still in contact with Bravo, who returned to the Caribbean for surgery on the ligament and cartilage damage he sustained to his left knee in the opening defeat to the South Africans.