CAN­TER­BURY, Eng­land – Hav­ing achieved lim­it­ed suc­cess in the last decade, West In­dies Women head coach Shane Deitz be­lieves the time has come for the re­gion­al team to adopt a dif­fer­ent style of play.

And with the team set to take on Eng­land in a T20 and One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries, be­gin­ning with the first T20 in Eng­land on Wednes­day, Deitz said this was the per­fect time to im­ple­ment that new strat­e­gy.

West In­dies Women won their one and on­ly T20 World Cup ti­tle back in 2016 when they de­feat­ed Aus­tralia by eight wick­ets.

How­ev­er, since then, they have failed to reach a fi­nal.

“We will be try­ing to put in place a new style of play, par­tic­u­lar­ly in T20s, which we did pret­ty well in the last World Cup, but we’ve got to take it an­oth­er step fur­ther, and our ODI crick­et hasn’t been as good so we have to find a way…so that we can beat the num­ber one and two and three ranked teams in the world.

“We’re ranked six in the world [T20] and a lot low­er in ODI crick­et, but my job is to come in and win World Cups, so that’s what we’re try­ing to do, win a World Cup, and we can’t play the way we’ve been play­ing over the last 10 years,” Deitz said.

“So, we’re go­ing to change the way we play, change our ap­proach to make sure we have a style of crick­et and the play­ers to be able to beat Aus­tralia, beat Eng­land, beat In­dia, South Africa, New Zealand and all of those top teams.

“We’ve had some glimpses of that, we’ve beat­en all of those teams in one off games, we’ve just got to be more con­sis­tent with it,” he main­tained.

West In­dies Women are com­ing off a dis­ap­point­ing World Cup Qual­i­fiers, where they failed to qual­i­fy for the Women’s Women Cup sched­uled to be held in In­dia in Sep­tem­ber.

Deitz said one of their main ob­jec­tives on the tour would be to be com­pet­i­tive against an Eng­land side ranked sec­ond in the world in T20s and ODIs.

He said get­ting ac­cli­ma­tised to the cold weath­er was one of their biggest hur­dles.

“I think to be com­pet­i­tive here is go­ing to be our ul­ti­mate goal.

“You know we’ve just come from Pak­istan where it was 46 de­grees every day and we come here and this morn­ing it was 10 de­grees when we ar­rived, so you’ve got get used to these con­di­tions first and fore­most and we trained re­al­ly well to­day so that ad­just­ment can hap­pen,” Deitz said.

“So, we just want to be com­pet­i­tive in every game. We haven’t toured here since 2019, so it’s been a long time and the con­di­tions are very dif­fer­ent to what we are used to, so we have to ac­cli­ma­tise quick and then get out and try to be re­al com­pet­i­tive.

“We’ve got some new faces in the team so there are re­al­ly op­por­tu­ni­ties for some girls to push their claim to be more of a per­ma­nent mem­ber of the team and the squad.

“We just want to play some good crick­et, get the con­fi­dence back, but it’s more about the process and how we go about play­ing our crick­et,” he fur­ther added.

CMC