On this file picture from September 2020, West Indies Ladies participant Shemaine
Campbelle bats throughout an intra-squad follow match in Derby, England.
(Photograph: CWI Media)
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — West Indies Ladies’s Head Coach Shane Deitz has expressed concern concerning the susceptibility of his batters to spin bowling as they put together for World Cup qualifiers in Pakistan subsequent month.
The West Indies Ladies will battle Bangladesh, Pakistan, Eire, Scotland and Thailand, from April 4 to 19, for 2 spots on the Ladies’s World Cup which is able to happen in India in October.
Talking throughout a digital media interplay on Monday, Deitz stated whereas he was impressed with the usual of play within the just-completed CG United Ladies’s Super50 Cup, the shortcoming of batters to play spin bowling is an space of concern.
Deitz pointed to the truth that the vast majority of groups on the qualifiers will depend on spinners, making it essential for West Indies Ladies’s batters to be proficient towards them.
“It’s been an excellent two weeks a few of the up-and-coming and older gamers who’ve been in West Indies cricket for a while,” Deitz stated.
“It was an excellent alternative to see everybody in motion…and an excellent alternative for me to see what was on the market. There have been some actually good, optimistic issues and a few issues that we have to enhance on…
“I feel the spin bowling throughout the entire match was actually good however the primary factor that stood out to me was the batting and the dearth of scores, the low strike charges — no huge a whole lot made by anybody in the entire match.
“So the batting facet of it — and notably taking part in towards spin bowling — is a little bit of a priority shifting ahead, notably the youthful gamers not likely having huge scores and dominating the match, which we’d like them to do.”
Nonetheless, Deitz stated plans had been already in movement to deal with the issue forward of the qualifiers.
“Transferring ahead, we’re placing some plans collectively on the way to sort out that and the massive enchancment that we have to do as a result of, clearly, taking part in most groups in ladies’s cricket, spin is a giant issue,” he stated.
“We’re going to the qualifiers the place Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand shall be bowling 90 to 95 per cent spin bowling to us, so it’s one thing we’re going to work on — and that was most likely the most important disappointment of the 50-over competitors.”
