West Indies elimination a ‘shame’ – Ricky Ponting

SYDNEY, Australia – Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has slammed West Indies’ untimely exit from the Twenty20 World Cup as a “shame” and has questioned the gamers’ need to symbolize the Caribbean facet at world occasions.

Talking previous to the Tremendous 12 foremost draw opener between Australia and New Zealand right here Saturday, Ponting mentioned the consequence was damaging for West Indies cricket total, particularly with the facet being two-time former champions.

“It’s a shame. It’s so dangerous for his or her cricket. They’ve bought an excessive amount of expertise in that staff and in West Indies cricket not to have the ability to make it by means of to the subsequent stage of a World Cup,” the Check and ODI legend was quoted as saying.

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“And even one in every of their foremost gamers (Shimron Hetmyer) not making it to the flight to recover from right here for a World Cup… to me this form of sums up most likely how little these occasions imply to the West Indies gamers and when you have a look at the best way that they performed you’d say the identical factor.

“[Nicholas] Pooran and these guys, they’re a lot better gamers than what we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks so little question there’ll be some soul-searching achieved once they get again.”

Brandon King was the one batsman with a half-century within the event, his unbeaten 62 within the essential do-or-die qualifier towards Eire stepping into useless as West Indies slumped to a chastening nine-wicket defeat in Hobart on Friday.

Veteran Johnson Charles, who scored 45 within the 31-run win over Zimbabwe final Wednesday, completed with 69 runs to hitch King as the one two batsmen to muster an mixture of over 50 runs.

Captain Pooran gathered 25 runs from his three innings, underscoring the anaemic batting which bothered West Indies within the three qualifiers.

“They’ll be as upset as anybody. It’s straightforward for me to face right here and say that it’s a shame that they haven’t made it, however they’ll be hurting as a lot as anyone,” Ponting identified.

“They’d have had large ideas and desires coming right here they usually haven’t performed anyplace close to effectively sufficient to even progress. So they’ve some work to do.”

And with West Indies returning Down Underneath subsequent month for a two-Check sequence in Perth and Adelaide, Ponting expressed considerations about their capability to compete with a really sturdy dwelling facet.

“They’re going to have to seek out a couple of lengths in the event that they’re going to compete towards the Aussies with the present group that the Australians have gotten,” he mentioned.

“In case you simply line them up on paper, there’s no manner you assume that they may compete. Cricket’s a humorous sport, however they’re going to need to play out of their skins I feel to make the primary two Checks entertaining.”

-CMC