Cricket West Indies (CWI) director of cricket Miles Bascombe, said the regional side’s 2-1 T20 series defeat to Nepal was disappointing, but noted that there were some positive takeaways, particularly the exposure given to emerging players.

West Indies lost the three-match series after dropping the first two games, handing Nepal a historic and first-time triumph over a full ICC member.

Speaking at a CWI media briefing on October 1, which also featured maroon president Kishore Shallow and CEO Chris Dehring, Bascombe said the tight turnaround ahead of the series played a role in the team’s slow start.

“We always knew that that turnaround time would have been a challenge. They pretty much had one day to acclimatise (to the conditions in Nepal) and one practice session going into that series,” he said.

“And in a very short tournament of three matches, if you're not off the ground running from match one you can very well find yourself behind the eight ball as we did.”

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Uhhh...did someone forget to tell this fcuking idiot that the matches were played in Sharjah...not Nepal?

And that the Nepalese also didn't have much time to acclimatize to the conditions?

In reply to SnoopDog



Dese dumbasses dont know dem assess from dem elbows

@SnoopDog

Are you saying the Director of West Indies cricket doesn't know where the WI team is playing?

@CaribbeanCricket.com

Cricket West Indies (CWI) director of cricket Miles Bascombe, said the regional side’s 2-1 T20 series defeat to Nepal was disappointing, but noted that there were some positive takeaways, particularly the exposure given to emerging players.

And now this loquacious clown is scrapping the U17 competition as well as removing CCC and WI Academy from the senior competitions. The circus has a surplus of clowns, Bascombe, the shallow one, and the Deficient One.

In reply to JoeGrine

They apparently loathe to cut management though……..no matter how many reports have recommended restructuring.

Trough feeding must be protected at all costs

How can they do away with the CCC and the WI Academy? Two players in the current WI team came from those teams Blades and Layne. They should have included more of the Breakout players in the team to Nepal to come up with that excuse, and the team should have been called the A team

@dayne

Did the Nepalese want to play against an A Team.

@SnoopDog

Dude, parentheses within a quote. That’s the writer injecting what he thinks is being referred to.

In reply to Da-Vincy

The most dangerous people are Ignoramuses who feel they know everything. There is a reason why the writer inserted parentheses within the quotation. Shhh...Left them to their idiocy.

This is admissible against Top tier teams only, but utter rubbish against teams the like of Nepal
Our bench should have easily dispose of such teams
All it confirms is the accelerated regression in the standard of our on field cricket