West Indies confronted a heart-breaking 35-run defeat in opposition to Zimbabwe within the thirteenth match of the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifiers 2023 on Saturday (June 24). The workforce’s present head coach and former skipper Daren Sammy expressed deep dissatisfaction with the Caribbean facet’s efficiency within the ongoing event and known as out his workforce for poor fielding.

It’s value mentioning that West Indies dropped Zimbabwean all-rounder Sikandar Raza twice within the match on scores of 1 and seven. The missed alternatives turned out to be deadly errors by the Windies workforce, and it will definitely value them the sport, with Raza rising as the very best run-scorer within the match and scoring 68 runs off 58 balls. Raza’s catch wasn’t the one one which the Shai Hope-led facet failed to carry onto; they shelled 4 catches general throughout the Zimbabwe innings.

Talking concerning the defeat on the post-match press convention, Sammy voiced his disappointment and emphasised that in the event that they proceed to offer alternatives to the opposition batters, they’ll in the end be dominated by them. He additional acknowledged that his gamers didn’t put up an excellent efficiency and didn’t need to win.

“Extraordinarily upset. On the toss, we received to do what we needed to do, which is to bowl first. Look, if we proceed to show this kind of fielding – we’ve spoken about it for the previous couple of video games – and should you hold giving the opposition’s greatest batters probabilities, ultimately the cricket gods will meet up with you,” stated Sammy.

“And it did with us at present, however (a goal of) 269 on that floor… Once more, these are the issues we’re making an attempt to vary. We’ve seen it occur up to now earlier than and the path that I would like this workforce to maneuver ahead…In the present day was actually poor and it’s about taking accountability and we didn’t do this at present. And therefore we didn’t need to win in any respect at present,” he added.

Whereas speaking to the press, Sammy additionally addressed the qualification state of affairs of the West Indies workforce. Though the world cup winner stated that the loss hadn’t been a setback to their journey, he on the identical time confessed that it actually would make the duty a bit troublesome for them.

“I wouldn’t say it hampers (our qualification) however it makes it tougher. You’d love to enter the Tremendous Six with 4 factors. We knew from the time we left house that this recreation would’ve been crucial to us. And once more, like I stated, the way in which we’ve performed… I stored telling the blokes that we stored on successful video games (by) not taking part in our greatest cricket,” Sammy informed the media personnel.