Legendary West Indies captain Clive Lloyd has questioned the team’s level of planning, particularly when it comes to its batting line-up on the back of two dismal performances to start the T20 World Cup.

The defending champions have been handed back-to-back losses at the hand of England and then South Africa.  Both losses were underpinned by underwhelming performances at the crease, which first saw the West Indies dismissed for 55 and then in the second match collapsed to 143 for 8 all-out after a promising start at 73 for 1.

Following its substandard showing against England, the team tinkered with its batting line-up promoting Nicholas Pooran up the order while pushing Chris Gayle and Shimron Hetmyer further down.

“I think if you look at what has happened.  Fifty-five runs, we are much better than that.  Our planning seems to be terrible. (Against South Africa) We had a wonderful start, and we didn’t promote people in the proper order,” he added.

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when has planning and strategy ever been the west indies strength in the last 30 years. if simmons plays next match it has to be nepotism being the nephew of the coach

Clive was manager of a team to ODI World Cup and did not know the tiebreaker rule!

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Agree..... Simmons have been utterly ridiculous....be it test,ODI or T-20.....

I see the Titties are staying clear of this one.

They wouldn't want to be seen as impertinent for taking on the esteemed (Sir) Clive Lloyd, would they?

In reply to Drapsey

Man! Clive was big on Holder as captain.

Clive how was the planning in 1983 against India

Lloyd's observation is spot on, bad assessment of the pitches, bad game situation assessment. lack of in game adjustments are some of the issues the team have.

In reply to camos

irrelevant comment - it does not speak to the issue at hand! certainly you are better than that..

In reply to WI_cricfan

another irrelevant comment - it does not speak to the issue at hand! certainly you too are better than that..

What is the issue at hand?

In reply to hotarobin

when Lloyd was in similar positions , his planning was no better, think of all the screwups he has made over the years!

Our poor performance has a lot to do with the pressure and curse we put on the team the moment the team was selected. So our players batted under pressure trying to prove their critics wrong instead of playing their normal game. When the likes of Chris Gayle was supposed to be preparing to take on the bowlers he was there fighting with Ambrose, a fight that Ambrose somehow started

In reply to camos

In defense of Lloyd, after that WI pull out of that ODI pull out by Bravo and the many on this WC squad, I personally spoke to Llyod and he told me that those rebels are never gonna represent WI ever again, fast forward, he is out today .. no IMC, one of his money manager, my friend is dead…RIP Jaip!

In reply to WI_cricfan

if I have to tell you that then you are in the wrong forum..

In reply to camos

you are determine to speak about things that no longer matter at the expense of things that do..suit yourself..

In reply to Sylobaby

..I don't know what Sylobaby means but I am sure that somehow, it's a perfect fit.