Pacer Chinelle Henry stated she hoped the efficiency of West Indies Girls in opposition to England Girls of their ICC Girls’s Twenty20 World Cup opener can spur them to raised issues within the remaining matches.
Hopes of the Windies Girls touchdown an upset had been dashed when the English brushed them apart by seven wickets on Saturday at Boland Park.
Although the batting of the Caribbean facet managed to cobble collectively a good 135 for seven from their 20 overs because of a high rating of 42 from their captain Hayley Matthews, the goal proved inadequate for England Girls, who coasted over the road with 33 balls to spare.
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“The consequence was not what we needed,” Chinelle Henry stated. “However to return right here and say that I’m not pleased with what we did could be not true.
“ the place we had been a few days in the past, or perhaps a month in the past after we performed England and misplaced 5-0 to them within the Caribbean, I might say we got here out right here, and we positively did compete with them. So, the subsequent three video games it’s only for us to enhance on this efficiency.”
She added: “I imply they’re really enjoying the identical cricket they did within the Caribbean, which is the fearless cricket. If you happen to realise, all people that got here on the market to bat, they weren’t afraid of something.
“They actually got here at us. And that’s the England we’ve been enjoying for the previous month – and we didn’t count on something totally different. I believe that’s what makes them so particular. They got here at us, nevertheless it was simply going on the market and simply enjoying our recreation.”
The defeat for West Indies was the sixth straight to England and 14th on the trot total, and they’ll now face 2020 T20 World Cup dropping finalists, India, of their essential second match on Wednesday.
“What I noticed from our staff particularly in opposition to a facet akin to England, I would love if we may go in our subsequent recreation and do the identical factor,” she stated.
“I’ve little question that after we come collectively as a unit on any day, like what all people says, that West Indies simply is aware of how you can flip up, so I imply, if we go there and play our recreation in opposition to India, like we did on this match, then we positively may beat them.”
West Indies welcomed again former captain and main batsman Stafanie Taylor for her first match in 5 months after recovering from harm.
Although she was clearly not at her fluent greatest, Henry expects her fellow Jamaican to enhance within the remaining matches.
“You understand, after being out for such a very long time after which simply be thrown again right into a World Cup match particularly on our opening day, I believe that’s powerful,” Henry stated.
“However I believe she has been doing this for a really very long time, so shifting ahead within the subsequent video games that we have now, positively count on to see enchancment from her. On that half, there’s probably not a lot to fret about there, it’s nearly backing her as a staff, and we all know that she is going to ship.”
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