Roneil Walcott
West Indies assistant coach (bowling) James Franklin said the lengthy rain extend and subsequent gradual outfield situations were no excuses for the regional team’s five-wicket loss to Sri Lanka within the principal of three One-day internationals (ODIs) on the Pallekele Worldwide Stadium on October 20.
After being lowered to 100 for four by Sri Lanka’s wily spinners, the Windies stepped forward to 185 for four thanks to an unbeaten fifth-wicket partnership between Sherfane Rutherford (74 off 82) and Roston Slump (33 off 33). With West Indies eyeing a gargantuan total after their middle-advise recovery, the rain intervened and achieve an stop to the regional team’s plans within the thirty ninth over.
With Sri Lanka living a revised purpose of 232 in 37 overs by strategy of the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) Methodology at 6.27 runs per over, Franklin felt the West Indies were positively in with a speak.
The Windies made early inroads within the eight-over energy play because the hosts slipped to forty five for 3, but they were undone by an spectacular 137-jog partnership between opposing captain Charith Asalanka (77 off 71) and debutant Nishan Madushka (69 off 54). Both men were pushed aside in instant succession by Guyanese left-arm spinner (three for 47), however the heavy lifting had already been carried out because the Lankans got home with over five overs to spare to transfer 1-0 up.
Franklin said situations were intelligent because the ball got slippery, but he said the West Indies need to expose their adaptability.
“We cannot spend the situations as an excuse. We play a big selection of games all the way through the field in climate affected games and also it’s seemingly you’ll per chance per chance favor to in discovering methods to address it and protect within the sport and uncover a methodology to manufacture,” Franklyn told Cricket West Indies media on October 21.
“While situations might per chance per chance enjoy changed in the case of that aspect, we’re by no ability going to spend that as an excuse for why we lost that sport.”
In slump pleasant situations, West Indies were pushed aside for a paltry 89 within the second T20 as Sri Lanka eventually got a 2-1 comeback series fetch. Slump and T20 captain Rovman Powell knocked the the situations, with coach Daren Sammy following suit on the stop of the T20 series.
Heading into the ODI series, Franklin said Sri Lanka’s slump probability turned into no secret, and or no longer it’s imperative for the team to salvage the upright adjustments and salvage their sport notion down to a T for the final matches.
“We’re 1-0 down in this three-sport series and we now enjoy got about a days now to repeat and work on the achieve our enhancements lie going into this next sport in Kandy,” Franklin said. “All of us know what surface we’ll salvage. Or no longer it goes to be a extremely identical surface all but again.
“I comprise from a batting point of look, we now enjoy got to expose appropriate intent with these Sri Lankan spinners. They are top quality spinners. In this allotment of the field, having an correct batting approach or methodology in opposition to slump bowling goes a protracted methodology. It involves us being assured with our methodology and executing it on the day and placing Sri Lanka below drive with each bat and ball.”
Franklin said there might be moreover room for enchancment with the ball, particularly with the inconsistent lengths which had been bowled.
With the team’s outdated ODI series being a 3-0 away loss to Australia in February, Franklin said the work to realize constructing blocks continues as they’re searching to enhance their tenth-positioned score.
“We’re on a disappear as an ODI team. All of us know we now enjoy got to protect improving…we’re coming here to Sri Lanka and they’ve repeatedly been appropriate in their very get dangle of nation – they’re refined to beat in their situations.”
No topic the loss within the principal ODI, Franklin said the West Indies were are very worthy within the series as he felt they took help a watch on at positive stages of the match.
“We exquisite enjoy to clutch help a watch on for longer periods. Fifty overs is a for far longer sport than T20 and or no longer it’s been a whereas since we now enjoy performed ODIs as a neighborhood.”
The second ODI in Pallekele will bowl off on October 23.
