ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Director of Cricket at Cricket West Indies (CWI), Miles Bascombe, has maintained that there have been some vibrant sparks within the regional facet’s loss to minnows Nepal of their lately concluded T20I sequence.
Regardless of sending a younger group lacking a number of senior gamers and boasting six doable debutants, the sixth-ranked West Indies had been nonetheless anticipated to comfortably defeat the 18th-ranked Nepal of their three-match T20I Unity Cup sequence final month within the United Arab Emirates.
Nevertheless, the West Indies misplaced the primary two matches on their option to struggling an embarrassing 2-1 defeat that despatched shockwaves throughout the cricketing group.
It additionally gave Nepal its first-ever win over a Full Member in any format.
Talking throughout CWI’s quarterly press convention on Wednesday, Bascombe stated the T20I sequence towards Nepal was all the time going to be a difficult one as a result of group’s building and the obtainable timeline.
“The Nepal sequence had all the time been earmarked as a possibility for publicity for rising expertise.
“We all the time knew that turnaround time would have been a problem. They’d just about at some point to acclimatize and one observe session going into that sequence. In a really quick match of three matches, if you happen to’re not off the bottom operating from match one, you’ll be able to very a lot end up behind the eight ball as we did,” Bascombe stated.
“However as I discussed, the chance for publicity has been key. We want extra data to fill these positions and strengthen a few of the roles in our worldwide T20 group. Whereas we noticed some struggles in these first couple of video games, we positively noticed what all of us knew, primarily based on what we noticed within the CPL and the Breakout League: that we have now high quality in that group, and succesful gamers.
“So, I feel that, though we had a really disappointing loss, we had been nonetheless in a position to establish some choices. We’ve got seen some gamers who’ve progressed all the best way from the Breakout League to worldwide T20 cricket, demonstrating that they might have what it takes to make the step as much as the worldwide degree.
“So, whereas I wouldn’t wish to disarm anybody of that emotional response to a West Indies loss to a minnow, we nonetheless want to have the ability to expose our gamers and provides them that chance to shine in difficult situations. I’m fairly assured that we have now seen some good indicators…” Bascombe additional added.
