Gutted after their shock loss to Scotland, West Indies coach Phil Simmons on Monday urged his boys to wake up and pick up the pieces as they gear up for a must-win challenge against Zimbabwe in the ICC T20 World Cup 2022. (More Cricket News)
Only four of their batters reached double digits as it was an abject batting surrender by the Nicholas Pooran-led side who folded for 118 in 18.3 overs, chasing Scotland's 161. 바카라Our batting definitely was a bit unprofessional. We need to wake up and start being as professional as we can be when we are batting,바카라 Simmons said in the post-match media conference here.
바카라The bowlers seem to be working hard and putting us in good positions, but the batters continue to falter. It's just too many soft dismissals. I think as batsmen you have to pay a lot more attention to your wicket. Every time, we play we are up there with the run rate.바카라
Losing wickets at regular intervals was one of the primary reasons for this defeat. 바카라It doesn't matter who we are playing against, but we keep losing wickets and soft wickets. So I think that I've been trying to remedy it for the last couple of months. Doesn't seem like it's there yet.
Hailing their bowlers' performance, Simmons said: 바카라The bowlers have been doing an excellent job. I think if we look at the stats and the data, if we know we're 7 to 15, we've been doing very well for the last year.
바카라So, for them to pull it back after that it was expected from us. So I think they did a great job,바카라 he said. The two-time T20 World Cup champions now face Zimbabwe in a do-or-die clash here Wednesday.
바카라We need to beat Zimbabwe first. That's the first step as we go along. When we get back here at this time on Wednesday, then we may be thinking a lot different on all those things you spoke about.바카라 In the second Group B match on Monday, Zimbabwe outplayed Ireland by 31 runs on the back of a solid batting show.
Simmons however was confident that his team would make it to the Super 12. Two teams from the group make the cut and it's Scotland and Zimbabwe who lead the standings wtih one win each. 바카라It was last year, Bangladesh lost the first game and they still ended up in the Super 12. So we've just got to think about Zimbabwe right now,바카라 he said.
With a day off for them, Simmons said: 바카라A day tomorrow to just rest and reflect on how things went, what we have to change and how we have to think in the next game. Someone said, we've been out there; we've been hitting balls. We've been practicing scenarios. We've been thinking about it. It's now to put it into play,바카라 he concluded.
