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WI vs IND | Need to bat 50 overs and build partnerships, says WI coach Phil Simmons
Phil Simmons wants West Indies to preserve wickets and bat their full quota of 50 overs in the upcoming games.
West Indies coach Phil Simmons lauds Kemar Roach for his 'exceptional influence' on the field
West Indies coach Phil Simmons has pin-pointed Roach's role in guiding the likes of Alzarri Joseph, Kyle Mayers, and Anderson Philip as significant reasons for their series win.
'He is just taking things to the next level'- Phil Simmons heaps praise on ‘leader’ Kemar Roach
The 33-year-old was awarded the ‘Player of the Match’ in the first Test against Bangladesh, picking up seven wickets in two innings.
PAK vs WI | The heat is going to be extreme, but it's for both sides: Phil Simmons
Upon West Indies' arrival in Pakistan, head coach Phil Simmons expressed his delight in touring the country again and said that the team is well prepared after a successful series win against the Netherlands.
‘England are still dangerous despite missing Broad and Anderson’, says West Indies coach Phil Simmons
Simmons has stressed on the fact that although England don’t have both their stalwarts Broad and Anderson this time, the English bowling attack can’t be underestimated as it is composed of very talented young individuals who are raring to make their mark in international cricket.
Head coach Phil Simmons holds West Indies' batting under the scanner for recent series defeat
Simmons emphasised how game awareness is critical, citing Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant's example. But on the other hand, West Indies' batters did not apply themselves better and often panicked in crucial stages.
T20 World Cup | Windies will continue being aggressive with better shot selection against South Africa
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.
Better pitches needed in First-Class cricket to groom batters: West Indies coach Simmons
West Indies Test batting has been poor and it was evident in both the two-match series against South Africa as well as Pakistan. Phil Simmons, the coach of West Indies conceded that his batters have been average and even below that, but stressed upon the fact that to improve Test batting, pitches in First-Class cricket need to better in West Indies. "We have to make our grounds better in terms of our pitches so our guys are able to bat and improve [and] bat longer. There's quite a few things we can do to push ourselves to the next level,” Simmons said after the team’s 109 run defeat against Pakistan in the second Test at Sabina Park in Jamaica. The First Class competition in West Indies, known as Regional West Indies Championship was last played for the 2019-20 season and that too was cut short after only eight rounds. The 12 round competition could not be completed due to the Covid-19 and ever since there has been no First-Class cricket for players ever since. Simmons, who took over the coaching of the West Indian Men’s team also said that the batters have been able to get to 40s and 50s, but have been unable to get that big hundred and that needs to be addressed. The coach further went on to seek the support of the Caribbean people to back his batters so that they keep "We see that we can bat. We are spending 110 balls for 50 runs but it's how we read the situation of the game. We've got to assess those situations in order for us to get the big scores. “We've seen a more controlled approach to the start of everyone's innings, but we have to work out how we go from the 40s and 50s to the 100s and 150s,” he said. “The bowling has been exceptional - it carries its weight and pulls the team - but the batters have to sit down and work out how to get to the scores we want to get. We need the backing, the batsmen need the encouragement. We don't see what's happening in the background, but they are working hard,” the 58-year-old, a Test batter himself in his playing days added.
Improvements have to be made in middle overs while batting: WI coach Phil Simmons
West Indies head coach Phil Simmons wants the batting unit to capitalise on the starts and score runs especially in the middle overs. "We are looking for the way we batted to continue and improvements have to be made in the middle overs from 20-39 in order for us to get from 280-290 to the 320-330 we'll need against Australia," Simmons said. "We've been discussing that since the Sri Lanka series so now it's time to put it into action,” he added. The likes of Shai Hope, Evin Lewis and Darren Bravo had a good run against Sri Lanka earlier in the year and the coach now wants one the three to play longer innings and provide resistance from one end. "It's been great [that] in the last series the top three all got hundreds and what we are asking of them now is one of the top three carry on until the end so we get to that 320-330," he said. Talking about the opposition, Simmons said that the Australia side will be “coming back stronger” after suffering a defeat in the T20I series. West Indies tasted success against Australia in the five-match T20I series after clinching 4-1 victory. "The Australians are not going to be an easy target and they will be coming stronger after losing the T20 series,” he said. The two teams will now lock horns in the three-match ODI series beginning on July 21 in Barbados.