West Indies Girls’s Captain Hayley Matthews believes the Caribbean aspect did not adapt to the situations in Dubai, which led to their 10-wicket loss to South Africa of their opening match of the Girls’s T20 World Cup.
The West Indies ladies might solely muster 118 for six of their 20 overs, because the situations had been sizzling and humid. South Africa then made 119 with out loss in 17.5 overs, with each Laura Wolvaardt and Tazmin Brits scoring half-centuries to steer their workforce to victory.
Matthews mentioned the workforce might have carried out higher with each bat and ball.
“Clearly, it was a reasonably disappointing sport. Firstly, not scoring sufficient runs on the board, and we might have favored to have taken just a few wickets and at the very least put up a bit extra of a combat within the second innings,” mentioned Matthews.
“However with a sport in two days, we’re going to need to get issues again collectively rapidly and choose up the items and go once more,“ Matthews mentioned.
And whereas she admitted that the recent situations had been difficult, she mentioned the Windies had not adjusted properly.
“It’s fairly sizzling right here in Dubai. I’d most likely need to say the hottest place I’ve ever performed cricket and even been to, and that’s somebody coming from the West Indies.“
“It’s positively been some tough situations. We’ve been right here for about two weeks, fortunately, and we’ve been in a position to acclimatize as a lot as we probably can to situations like this…,“ Matthews mentioned.
“I feel we got here down right here anticipating some fairly good wickets. We’ve camped right here fairly a bit once we went to Pakistan in April, and we are likely to spend a while down right here coaching, so we knew what the ICC Academy grounds had been like, and people had been fairly first rate wickets early.
“It wasn’t a foul wicket as we speak. South Africa confirmed you’ll be able to actually bat on a wicket like that and even us in elements. Stafanie Taylor was in a position to take cost of the sport as properly all through the center.
“I don’t assume the situations stunned us an excessive amount of. We most likely simply didn’t adapt to them as properly as we speak,“ the skipper added.
