BRIS­TOL – West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my said he is ex­treme­ly dis­ap­point­ed that the re­gion­al team has failed to win a sin­gle game so far dur­ing their cur­rent tour of Eng­land.

The West In­dies were white­washed 3-0 in the pre­ced­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries and fol­low­ing their four-wick­et de­feat against Eng­land on Sun­day, they now trail the three-match T20I se­ries 2-0, with the fi­nal game set to be played on Tues­day.

Speak­ing in a post-match in­ter­view fol­low­ing Sun­day’s loss, Sam­my said that based on their per­for­mances against Eng­land last year in both ODIs and T20Is, the team had high hopes of do­ing well dur­ing the tour.

“I’m very dis­ap­point­ed. The way we played T20 in 2024 we were all look­ing for­ward to 2025, es­pe­cial­ly the con­tests we have had over the last two years against Eng­land, even though it’s been at home, but we’ve been much more com­pet­i­tive.

“To lose both se­ries and not get off the mark yet is very dis­ap­point­ing be­cause of the cal­i­bre of play­ers that we have in this team,” Sam­my con­ced­ed.

Re­fer­ring specif­i­cal­ly to Sun­day’s de­feat, Sam­my said even though the West In­dies post­ed a com­pet­i­tive to­tal of 196 for six from their 20 overs, he did not like the way in which the bat­ters man­aged the in­nings.

He said their in­abil­i­ty to dom­i­nate the mid­dle overs af­ter an en­cour­ag­ing start led to a loss in mo­men­tum.

“When you look at the av­er­age West In­di­an win­ning score it’s about 190, but I thought we al­lowed them to set­tle in the mid­dle be­tween overs sev­en to 15, I thought that was where we were off the ball a lot.

“Ob­vi­ous­ly the way Rov­man [Pow­ell], Ja­son [Hold­er] and [Ro­mario] Shep­herd played the last five overs, that was just su­perb, but we lost it in that bat­ting be­tween overs sev­en to 10, first by not los­ing a wick­et and on­ly scor­ing I think 27 runs and then we were go­ing at just around a run a ball be­tween 10 to 15,” Sam­my said.

“It took all the mo­men­tum and even when you score 16 runs an over in the last five, it was not enough.”

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