NAVI MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies Ladies’s captain Hayley Matthews believes that the regional group can overcome India’s dominance over them at dwelling and switch their fortunes round of their T20 sequence which bowls off right here Sunday.
Talking throughout a pre-match press convention on Saturday, Matthews conceded that India Ladies had emerged because the Caribbean facet’s chief in current instances.
The final time the 2 groups clashed in a T20 sequence was in 2019 within the Caribbean when India Ladies prevailed 5-0.
Nonetheless, she maintained that West Indies Ladies had been enjoying at a excessive stage over the previous two years and backed her group to emerge victorious within the three-match sequence, which might be performed on the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.
“…If you take a look at 2024 as a group, particularly in T20 cricket, we’ve finished properly,” Matthews mentioned.
“I believe we performed 5 T20s in opposition to Pakistan, successful 4, two out of three in opposition to Sri Lanka, after which making a World Cup semifinal.
“So yeah, over these eight years, issues would possibly seem like they haven’t gone that good, however I really feel like over the previous yr, yr and a half, we’ve finished a superb job of placing the group collectively and everybody placing up their hand and enjoying their roles to get us wins,” she added.
She mentioned a lot of India’s success over the West Indies Ladies had come throughout a “transitionary interval.”
“…When it does come to our report in opposition to India, it in all probability hasn’t been the perfect of late, however I believe we had been going via some kind of transitionary interval throughout the group, and our report in opposition to anybody wasn’t the perfect all through that interval,” Matthews mentioned,
“We’ve been working actually arduous and actually targeted on our sport and what we will enhance.
“Developing in opposition to a group like India, it’s going to be a troublesome project, however we’ve got been enjoying some constructive cricket over the past yr, like I maintain saying, and again ourselves to hopefully go on the market and have the ability to change issues round a bit,” she added.
