West Indies head coach Phil Simmons stressed the need to bat 50 overs and put up partnerships if the hosts wanted to outsmart Team India in the upcoming three-match ODI series, starting on July 22.
West Indies and India are scheduled to play three ODIs on July 22, 24, and 27 at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad, and Simmons want his batters to bat all 50 overs, with someone scoring a century and holding the team together to challenge the tourists.
Phil Simmons was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo: “The main thing is how we bat our 50 overs we have to bat 50 overs and put our innings together and partnerships together. Somebody has to be looking to score a hundred and hold the team together. Batting-wise that is it.”
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The head coach is not overly concerned about West Indies' bowling and fielding ahead of the India series, despite the fact that they recently suffered defeat in the home series against Bangladesh.
Simmons said, “The bowling and the fielding has been improving daily. We rank ourselves very highly on the fielding. The bowling, we had couple of games on those wickets where people might say we should've gotten more wickets but the wicket got better every time we fielded because they had put out the second roller on it and it had dried out from earlier in the day.”
He signed off by saying, “So, the bowlers have been doing well and we have to continue restricting and getting wickets - that's the only way we can keep totals low and continue to win games.”
