West Indies coach Phil Simmons blamed the shot selection of his batters for being bundled out for a meagre 55, the third-lowest T20 World Cup total ever and lowest ever for the team from the Caribbean.
The aggressive approach adopted by the team was according to the style of play and the coach wasn’t worried about that. He would rather have the team playing aggressively, but with better shot selection.
Speaking at the pre-match press conference, Simmons said, "Well, the style in which we play our cricket has always been in the style in which we play our cricket. But we also got to assess the situation at the time and play according to the situation. We will continue to be in our aggressive state, but our shot-selection and assessment of the situation must be a lot better."
"For me, Saturday was just about bad shot selection. The bowling wasn't, as we would say, extraordinary. All the guys have played against these guys [England] before, so I just put it down to bad shot selection. We need to improve that tenfold by the time we get to Tuesday,” the coach added.
The biggest threat that the West Indies team would have to face in their next game against South Africa would of playing chinaman spinner Tabriaz Shamsi, who also troubled a lot of West Indian batters in Proteas’ tour of the Caribbean in June this year. Simmons was aware of the threat and said that the team is working on it and better results are expected in the next game.
'Yeah, we've been looking back at that [T20I series in the West Indies] and seeing how in the games so far here [in the UAE] how people have played and won but also about how batsmen are going to find a way to score off him and without him being much of a threat,” said the 58-year-old.
After losing a close low scoring encounter in Abu Dhabi, the Temba Bavuma led said have moved to Dubai where Windies were drubbed by England.