England head coach Jon Lewis revealed his gamers have been “distraught” after defeat to West Indies despatched them crashing out of the T20 World Cup in Dubai.
Lewis’ facet had no reply to big-hitting West Indies openers Hayley Matthews and Qiana Joseph, who each smashed quickfire half-centuries as England slumped to a six-wicket defeat.
England, who had comfortably gained all three of their earlier Group B fixtures in Sharjah, have been restricted to 141 for seven and West Indies cruised previous their profitable goal with two overs to spare.
Joseph struck her first worldwide half-century, 52 off 38 balls, however was dropped 4 occasions – by Sophia Dunkley on six, Alice Capsey on 31 and twice by Maia Bouchier on 48 and 52 – whereas two different more durable probabilities went begging.
Failing to Execute
When requested about England’s sloppy fielding, Lewis mentioned: “I haven’t spoken to the gamers about what they’ve seen on the market. Clearly, actually distraught.
“We’ve been knocked out of a World Cup. (Dropped catches) are clearly one thing that’s been moderately widespread at this stadium.
“We didn’t execute in addition to we’ve accomplished for most likely the previous 12 months or so with the ball, and within the discipline we dropped plenty of catches, and you’ll’t afford to drop six catches.
“Truthful play to the West Indies. I assumed they acquired it just about bang on tactically when it comes to attacking the powerplay and so they made it actually, actually difficult for us.
“However, yeah, we weren’t at our greatest right now, which is clearly unlucky for us.”
England had overwhelmed Bangladesh, South Africa and Scotland in Sharjah earlier than travelling to Dubai to tackle West Indies on the Worldwide Stadium.
West Indies recovered from a 10-wicket defeat to South Africa of their opening group match with wins in opposition to Scotland and Bangladesh.
West Indies and South Africa pipped England for a semi-final place on web run-rate, whereas Lewis mentioned his gamers would bounce again from a sobering defeat.
Sticking Collectively
He added: “That’s the World Cup, isn’t it? It’s fairly brutal. So, it should take a little bit of time. The gamers might be actually reflective. We’ve acquired a extremely sturdy group.
“The group will stick collectively. That’s one factor they positively will do. They work properly collectively and so they work for one another and so they’ll assist one another and the workers will rally round them and assist them as greatest we will.
“The fact of the scenario is we didn’t play properly sufficient right now and we acquired beat by a greater facet on the day.
“In order that’s sport and that’s World Cup sport and it’s a knockout sport.”
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