Hayley Matthews of West Indies bats throughout the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024 match between England and West Indies at Dubai Worldwide Stadium on Oct. 15, 2024 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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West Indies Ladies’s captain Hayley Matthews believes the Caribbean group can overcome India’s dominance over them and switch their fortunes round of their upcoming T20 collection.
Talking throughout a pre-match press convention, Matthews conceded that India has emerged on prime of the Caribbean facet in current occasions.
The final time the West Indies performed in opposition to India in a T20 collection was in 2019 within the Caribbean, when India gained 5-0.
Nevertheless, she mentioned that the West Indies have been taking part in at a excessive stage over the previous two years and backed her group to emerge victorious within the three-match collection, which can 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 carried out rather well,” Matthews mentioned.
“We performed 5 T20s in opposition to Pakistan, profitable 4, two out of three in opposition to Sri Lanka, after which making a World Cup semifinal.
“So yeah, over that eight-year span, issues may seem like they haven’t gone that good, however I really feel like over the previous yr, yr and a half, we’ve carried out a very good job of placing the group collectively, and everybody actually placing up their hand and taking part in their roles to get us wins,” she added.
“…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 have been going by some sort 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 exhausting and actually centered on our recreation and what we are able to enhance.
“Clearly, arising in opposition to a group like India, it’s going to be a troublesome task, however we’ve been taking part in some actually optimistic 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.
In the meantime, because of damage issues, India’s Yastika Bhatia, Shreyanka Patil, and Priya Punia will all miss the upcoming T20 and ODI collection.
India hopes to rebound from a 3-0 ODI collection defeat by Australia and can be seeking to decide up factors within the collection in opposition to West Indies and Eire thereafter.
