00:00The narrative of this series has been that of an inexperienced England squad
00:04against the most seasoned and explosive West Indians at home. Yet, the series is
00:08in the balance going into the third and final match tomorrow.
00:12However, Windy's captain Shea Hope is not one of those buying into that narrative.
00:16There's a lot of things we tend to misinterpret the word experience.
00:21Experience sometimes we talk about it being a hundred plus games or 200 plus
00:25games. Experience is just being able to adapt to things quickly because a guy
00:28can play five or six games and be more experienced than a guy who's played a
00:32hundred. It's just the way how he's learning on job, how he's adapting to
00:36different situations that he's facing. But yeah, I thought that yes,
00:40they're a young team, they're very inexperienced in a sense, but good cricket
00:45is good cricket nevertheless. You see Joel Andrew, for example, he's batting as
00:49though he's been playing for a long time. He hasn't played any, he hasn't batted
00:52yet in international stage, but he's showing that he's capable of performing
00:55at this level. Narratives aside, the Caribbean men would not want to drop
00:59this series at home after their recent Sri Lanka tour and the skipper knows
01:03what is required. You can always preach. I'm going to continue preaching as well
01:06is consistency. In order to consider us a great team or elite team, we've got to be
01:11consistent. We've got to shrink performances together. It can't always be a one game
01:15or two games in a series. You've got to make sure we seal it. We've got to play good
01:19cricket all the way through and the sign that we understand all the conditions,
01:23the times in the game that we're supposed to be pressing, the time we're supposed to relax, all
01:26those things. But yeah, we've got to be more consistent, disciplined with our
01:29skills and then ensure that when we get those crucial moments in the game, we're
01:33grasping. The performances of Justin Graves, who has three consecutive
01:36regional Super 50 centuries to his name, hasn't gone unnoticed to the skipper and
01:41while he can certainly use such a performer, he wants to see others pushing
01:45for selection. That's what you need. You need to see that same consistency that I'm
01:49talking about when you go back, especially someone with his experience,
01:52he's played international cricket already. Someone who's had that taste in
01:55an international level, he needs to go back into regional level and show what
01:58he has played in international and show what he's supposed to be above the rest.
02:01So it's great. It's pleasing to see. I'm very happy to see him scoring runs and I
02:05just hope that most of the other guys back in regional cricket can, you know, raise
02:09the standard a bit and obviously push themselves here in this level.
02:13Terence Clark, TV6 Sport.
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