The West Indies have struggled to bat for full 50 overs within the final couple of years and head coach Phil Simmons mentioned that’s one side of the sport they’d look to enhance on within the three ODIs towards India.
To place issues into perspective, West Indies have performed out 50 overs simply six instances in 39 innings for the reason that 2019 World Cup, and misplaced 9 of their 13 ODI collection for the reason that showpiece occasion. Simmons’ facet additionally confronted a humiliating collection defeat towards Eire at dwelling earlier this yr. The collection towards India begins on Friday.
“The primary factor is how we bat our 50 overs we now have to bat 50 overs and put our innings collectively and partnerships collectively,” Simmons informed reporters within the pre-series press convention. “Anyone needs to be seeking to rating 100 and maintain the crew collectively. Batting-wise that’s it,” he added.
Simmons, who has been the top coach of the West Indies facet since 2019, additionally mentioned that he’s hopeful of “pleasant” surfaces that can profit his facet extra “than the opposition” crew.
“The higher wickets we get, the higher will probably be for our batters and bowlers. The dialog is presently on with the involved people, as at all times,” he mentioned.
Simmons, nevertheless, doesn’t appear to be too anxious about his fielding and bowling departments.
“The bowling and the fielding has been bettering each day. We rank ourselves very extremely on the fielding,” Simmons mentioned. “The bowling, we had a few video games on these wickets the place, sure, folks would possibly say we must always have gotten extra wickets however the wicket obtained higher each time we fielded as a result of they’d put out the second curler on it and it had dried out from earlier within the day. So, the bowlers have been doing effectively and we now have to proceed proscribing and getting wickets – that’s the one manner we will hold totals low and proceed to win video games,” he added.
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