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- Updated: September 24, 2016
West Indies captain Carlos Brathwaite has rued the batting failure of his team in the first T20 against Pakistan in Dubai and said it was primarily “poor execution” that led to them being bowled out for 115. West Indies saw only two batsmen scoring in double-figures as left-arm spinner Imad Wasim ran through their line-up with figures of 5 for 14, and Brathwaite said they failed to assess the conditions “quickly enough.”
“[We lost because of] poor execution, [their] good bowling, you know we are an aggressive exciting team, two games ago we scored 240 odd and today we scored 115,” Brathwaite said. “We have ebbs and follows ups and downs, today it just didn’t come off for us. I don’t think we assessed the conditions quickly enough. Majority of the shots didn’t show situation awareness.
“I don’t want to just say we didn’t bat well, credit must go to Imad Wasim who bowled fantastically, anytime you get 5 for 14 in an international match you must be doing something right, and to get it in a T20 international is even better. But these things happen. We are an aggressive team and I won’t tell any of the guys in the room to lose their aggression, it is just a matter of being more situation aware going into tomorrow’s game.”
Wasim opened the bowling for Pakistan who asked West Indies to bat, and the left-arm spinner first struck with his fifth ball, before striking twice in his second over to dismiss Andre Fletcher and Marlon Samuels. He …
