MICHAEL Holding, the West Indies bowling legend turned analyst, has implored members of the current team to play smart cricket.Speaking after the West Indies won their last group match to advance to the quarter-finals, Holding was not impressed with the team’s approach despite winning.

The Windies, after dismissing the UAE for 175, reached their victory target in 30.3 overs, with half-centuries from Johnson Charles (55) and Jonathan Carter (50). But Holding believes the team still employed a poor strategy.
“You may get the end-result that you want but there has to be the correct process,” he said.
“I’m not too sure what the thought-process was to send in Andre Russell when they sent him out to bat. What for? They started out needing five runs an over, and in modern One-Day cricket, that’s not difficult.
When Andre Russell went out to bat, they needed about four runs per over or a little bit less. What was the purpose of sending Russell out to hit fours and sixes? Bat sensibly!”
Holding also chastised the team for their approach while bowling during the UAE’s innings. The West Indies had their associate opponents struggling at 26 for 5 and mainly through the efforts of Jason Holder’s 4 for 27 and Jerome Taylor’s 3 for 36.
However, the UAE recovered and put on a 107-run partnership for the seventh wicket.
“They got four early wickets, had UAE 46-6, which was a fantastic position, and then when (Amjad) Javed and (Nasir) Aziz had that partnership going they sort of lost interest.
They were just waiting on things to just happen instead of going out there and making them happen,” he said.