West Indies white-ball captain Nicholas Pooran believes his team gave up their chance to win Wednesday’s first of two T20 Internationals against hosts Australia as they succumbed to a three-wicket defeat, with one ball to spare, at Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast in Queensland.

A disappointed Pooran told AP, “Definitely tough at the end. We had our chance to win the game. We messed it up. Catches win matches. Obviously we paid the price again.”

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Selectors destroyed Pooran with the captaincy. Holder or Powell would have been a much better choice. Oh but they wanted a broomstick they could use and in that case Pooran suits them better.

And the captain leading from the back .

18, 14, 22, 24, 3, 15, 1, 2, 2

a guy once told me his son scored 21 goals in a game at school!