England head coach Jon Lewis revealed his gamers had been “distraught” after defeat to West Indies despatched them crashing out of the T20 World Cup in Dubai.
Lewis’ aspect 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, had been restricted to 141 for seven and West Indies cruised previous their successful 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 possibilities went begging.
Failing to Execute
When requested about England’s sloppy fielding, Lewis stated: “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 fairly widespread at this stadium.
“We didn’t execute in addition to we now have carried out for in all probability the previous 12 months or so with the ball, and within the area we dropped a variety of catches, and you may’t afford to drop six catches.
“Truthful play to the West Indies. I believed they acquired it just about bang on tactically by way of attacking the powerplay they usually made it actually, actually tough for us.
“However, yeah, we weren’t at our greatest at this time, 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 towards Scotland and Bangladesh.
West Indies and South Africa pipped England for a semi-final place on web run-rate, whereas Lewis stated 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 is going to take a little bit of time. The gamers shall be actually reflective. We’ve acquired a very robust group.
“The group will stick collectively. That’s one factor they undoubtedly will do. They work properly collectively they usually work for one another they usually’ll assist one another and the employees will rally round them and assist them as greatest we are able to.
“The fact of the state of affairs is we didn’t play properly sufficient at this time and we acquired beat by a greater aspect on the day.
“In order that’s sport and that’s World Cup sport and it’s a knockout sport.”
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