‘Lack of courage’ kills West Indies Women’s T20 World Cup hopes – Logie
Coach Gus Logie says West Indies batters were pretty timid the whole series.
Coach Gus Logie says West Indies batters were pretty timid the whole series.

WINDIES Women coach, Gus Logie, is a disappointed man after his side were unceremoniously ousted from the recently concluded ICC Women’s T20 World Cup but it isn’t because of the loss, it’s because he believes they can do better.

According to Logie, West Indies Women are a much better batting team than they have shown so far.

“It’s T20 cricket; you need to show courage, you need to show composure. If you are timid you are not going to produce the kind of scores you want to produce and we’ve seen that with our batting.

“It’s been pretty timid the whole series starting with the first game against Thailand when you had a score of 70-odd to get and it took 16 overs to get it,” said Logie, who watched as his side started with a seven-wicket win over Thailand before being blitzed by Pakistan and then England.

Their final game against South Africa was abandoned on account of persistent showers.

“That tells me, at the end of the day, while the players have some batting ability I think there’s a fear factor in the middle to play their natural game. It’s unfortunate that they wait until they get to the highest level of the game, in a World Cup, to show that lack of courage,” he said.

Logie went on to say that you saw the difference in the team when they were in training where they felt the freedom to play the way they play.

“Batting is an individual thing; you play as well as you can, you have to back yourself. Some of the balls these ladies are patting, you bowl those balls in the nets and they go way, way out of it. It’s not to say they can’t play the shots, I think it’s about believing in themselves under pressure.

“Over the years, we’ve always had good performances, but if you look at the scores they’ve always been about 120-130. We’ve had good bowling performances and defended it in the field. I don’t think we have scored 160s and 170s as regularly as we want to.” (Sportsmax)

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