DEL­HI, In­dia – West In­dies Twen­ty20 cap­tain Rov­man Pow­ell says he will try to bor­row the de­tailed plan­ning in­volved in the Ra­jasthan Roy­als set­up, when he leads his side in­to next month’s T20 World Cup.

Pow­ell is part of the Roy­als out­fit which have been one of the stand­out teams in the In­di­an Pre­mier League this sea­son, cur­rent­ly ly­ing sec­ond on 16 points on­ly by virtue of an in­fe­ri­or run rate to lead­ers Kolkata Knight Rid­ers.

The 30-year-old said one of the hall­marks of the Roy­als sea­son was the lev­el of plan­ning be­ing un­der­tak­en be­hind the scenes.

“One thing I like with this team is the way how they plan. I think we as West In­di­ans can plan like that,” Pow­ell said Tues­day, fol­low­ing Roy­als’ de­feat to Del­hi Cap­i­tals.

“They go in­to specifics, they go in­to de­tail and I think that has ac­count­ed for the over­all suc­cess of the team.

“And it is some­thing I’m look­ing to take for­ward from a per­son­al stand­point and see how best I can rub it off to my fel­low West In­di­ans.”

Pow­ell will lead West In­dies in­to the June 1-29 tour­na­ment which will see the joint hosts tak­ing on Afghanistan, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Ugan­da in Group C of the open­ing round.

The Ja­maican, who has en­joyed suc­cess since be­ing ap­point­ed cap­tain 18 months ago, will al­so be a key mem­ber of his side’s bat­ting group.

How­ev­er, his op­por­tu­ni­ties in the IPL have been lim­it­ed, with on­ly four in­nings from which he has gath­ered on­ly 77 runs.

His for­tunes have been in con­trast to that of the fran­chise, and Pow­ell said an­oth­er fea­ture of their suc­cess had been the com­mu­ni­ca­tion at all lev­els of the play­ing group.

“I think it’s been the com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween the cap­tain, the coach and the play­ers – com­mu­ni­ca­tion goes a far way,” Pow­ell ex­plained.

“Com­mu­ni­ca­tion brings clar­i­ty through­out the group and I think that has been a dri­ving force in our suc­cess so far.”

CMC