West Indies’ Hayley Matthews in motion through the Ladies’s Cricket T20 World Cup match in opposition to England on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Oct. 15, 2024.
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West Indies Ladies’s Captain Hayley Matthews has applauded the Caribbean facet for displaying character after struggling a humiliating 10-wicket defeat in opposition to South Africa of their opening match of the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup.
Since that defeat, the West Indies has registered emphatic victories over Scotland and Bangladesh and at present sit atop Group B.
After their eight-wicket win over Bangladesh on the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Matthews stated she was impressed with how the crew recovered.
“After that first defeat, we did communicate loads about how we wished to come back again and the way we wished to do it as a crew, and I feel everybody was up for the problem from that second.
“Clearly, in a World Cup, you lose one sport early on. It does put the stress on, however I feel the crew has been great with the best way they’ve dealt with the stress,” Matthews stated.
“Everyone seems to be in temper, everyone seems to be in good spirits, and everyone seems to be up for the problem. That’s been the largest factor.
“I feel lots of the time while you do get into bother conditions, gamers and the crew can generally shy from it, however I feel the best way the women have stepped up and actually tried to place in performances and take the assault to the opposite crew, it has been nice to see,” the skipper added.
Matthews stated the crew’s mindset had fully modified, and this could possibly be seen of their performances on the sphere.
“Simply our perspective on the crease, desirous to play fearlessly and desirous to take the sport to the opposite groups.
“We may have been caught on the backfoot after that first match, however we simply wished to throw the assault and are available again on the different groups…” Matthews maintained.
“I feel the women have finished a terrific job of with the ability to bounce again and actually have that perspective and that battle inside them, and we’re clearly going to attempt to take that into the following match in opposition to England.
“We all know how essential that’s and the way large of a match that’s, however we need to attempt to have the identical perspective even in opposition to higher groups,” she added.
