BALAGOLLA, Sri Lanka, CMC – West Indies ODI captain Shai Hope has admitted that their batters should discover a solution to overcome Sri Lanka’s wily spinners if they’re to claw their means again into the collection.
The regional aspect misplaced Sunday’s rain-affected opening ODI by 5 wickets underneath the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern technique. It should win the 2 remaining video games to emerge victorious within the collection.
Equally to the simply concluded T20 collection, Sri Lanka has relied closely on its spinners to suppress the Windies’ batters.
Within the first ODI, their 4 spinners bowled 31 of the 38 attainable overs within the West Indies whereas accounting for all 4 wickets to fall and conceding solely 139 runs at a stingy run price of 4.50 runs an over.
Talking forward of Wednesday’s second ODI, Hope stated the West Indies wanted to plot a plan to unsettle Sri Lanka’s spinners.
“We all know their principal menace would be the spin, however we’ve got to have a look at the ability play and see how we are able to assault it.
“After which how will we by some means assault their spinners, placing them underneath strain? We’ve got to play totally different pictures or have a look at totally different scoring areas, push a bit tougher to make them assume,” Hope identified.
“If we enable them to set and bowl, they are going to be throughout us. In order a batting group, we’ve got to place much more strain on their bowlers to present ourselves one of the best probability to get massive scores on the board.”
Hope stated that whereas defeating Sri Lanka at house wouldn’t be straightforward, the West Indies have been up for the problem.
He stated the group was targeted on enhancing all points of their recreation and climbing the ICC rankings.
“We all know precisely what’s in entrance of us. We’ve got to play the subsequent recreation like a remaining, see the place we’re at when it comes to the rankings on the world stage, and discover methods to get higher and enhance rapidly,” Hope stated.
“Having stated that, we’ve got to ensure we take every recreation at a time, and seeing what occurred within the earlier recreation, we’ve got to have a look at the learnings we are able to discover there, perceive how we have to enhance our bowling and batting.
“I feel we’ve got our work minimize out. The conversations we’ve had during the last 48 hours or so have been fairly good, and I feel we’re in good head area to bounce again on Wednesday,” the skipper added.
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