Henry expects better from Windies Women in remaining T20 WC matches
PAARL, South Africa, (CMC) – Pacer Chinelle Henry is hoping the performance of West Indies Women against England Women in their ICC Women’s Twenty20 World Cup opener will spur them to better things in the remaining matches.
Hopes of the Windies Women landing an upset were dashed when the English brushed them aside by seven wickets on Saturday at Boland Park.
Though the batting of the Caribbean side managed to cobble together a decent 135 for seven from their 20 overs thanks to a top score of 42 from their captain Hayley Matthews, the target proved insufficient for England Women, who coasted over the line with 5.5 overs to spare.
“The result was not what we wanted,” Henry said. “But to come here and say that I’m not proud of what we did would be not true.
“Looking at where we were a couple of days ago, or even a month ago when we played England and lost 5-0 to them in the Caribbean, I would say we came out here, and we definitely did compete with them. So, the next three games it’s just for us to improve on this performance.”
“I mean they’re actually playing the same cricket they did in the Caribbean, which is the fearless cricket. If you realise, everybody that came out there to bat, they weren’t afraid of anything. They really came at us. And that’s the England we’ve been playing for the past month – and we didn’t expect anything different. I think that’s what makes them so special. They came at us, but it was just going out there and just playing our game,” she added.
The defeat for West Indies was the sixth straight to England and 14th on the trot overall, and they will now face 2020 T20 World Cup losing finalists, India in their crucial second match on Wednesday.
“What I saw from our team especially against a side such as England, I would like if we could go in our next game and do the same thing,” she said.
“I have no doubt that when we come together as a unit on any day, like what everybody says, that West Indies just knows how to turn up, so I mean, if we go there and play our game against India, like we did in this match, then we definitely could beat them,” she added.
