Esuan Crandon confident West Indies can bounce back against England

West Indies assistant coach Esuan Crandon says despite the crushing losses against England in the first two games of the five-match series, West Indies are positive of bouncing back in the third T20I on Saturday (September 26).



"We have a fairly good chance to stay alive in the series with three games to go," Crandon told reporters on the eve of the third match on Friday (September 25). "We have tried to reinforce that to the players that if we win the next game we are back into the series and build some momentum from there on and put some pressure on the English players."



Crandon said the staff have been trying to keep the players positive and make sure that they are well prepared for the next game. He added that while the squad had done their homework and put their plans in place, it is important the players are able to execute well.



"We've been giving more positive feedback to the players. They would have really prepared well today. They came out and they were all ready to get their training together and do what they needed to do today to get themselves ready for the match tomorrow."



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"We did our homework already of the England players, so the players are clear as to what we want to do tomorrow, and it all comes down to execution for me at the end of the day."



West Indies have struggled with the bat through the series managing only scores of 116 and 104 in the first two games. Their batters have been unable to find any rhythm, piling up the dots and allowing the hosts to boss the game, thus exposing their overreliance on the trio of Hayley Matthews, Stafanie Taylor and Deandra Dottin.



While acknowledging the team's struggles, Crandon said he trusted the rest of the line-up to be able to contribute in the coming games.



"When the team is selected, obviosuly players are selected to play different roles and we expect the players to do that. Obviously they have not performed as we expected them . We don't want to put too much of pressure on the names that you mentioned (Matthews, Dottin, Taylor), but as a team, there's always different contributions from different players. The more contributions you have with the bat, obviosuly it's going to make it easier for the top names."







"I think it's a matter of just going out there and taking some responsibility. It hasn't come out yet for them, but we are very confident that the others are going to support from the next game onward."



The assistant coach also said West Indies need to improve on their boundary hitting abilities - something that England have been much better at.



"A lot of people will say that we didn't really bat well and so on, but I think when we look at the numbers we were very competitive when we look at the ones and twos and threes we scored in this second game. I think we were outplayed in terms of boundaries."



"England obviously hit more boundaries than us and that would have made a huge difference in terms of scoring. That's one area that we would have looked into carefully as a batting unit we would have discussed that and we really want to see our best that we can hit more boundaries throughout the innings," he concluded.