00:00The West Indies face a tough challenge from hosts England in three T20s followed by three
00:04ODIs with the action starting Wednesday in Canterbury.
00:08Windy's coach Shane Deed says the players have given it their all during training and
00:13plan to do the same on the field of play.
00:15Yeah I think to be competitive here is going to be the ultimate goal, you know we've just
00:22come from Pakistan where it was 46 degrees every day and the girls had regionals which
00:27was real hot and we come here you know we trained this morning it was 10 degrees when we arrived
00:32so you got to get used to these conditions first and foremost and we trained really well today
00:37so that adjustment is starting to happen so we just want to be competitive in every game here.
00:42Having missed out on a spot for this year's fifth day over world cup in India
00:46the ladies in Maroon will be using this tour as a rebuilding process.
00:50As such Deed sees this as an important series even though world cup qualification is not at stake.
00:56My job is to come in to win world cups that's what we're trying to do win a world cup
01:00and we can't play the way we've been playing over the last you know 10 years because we haven't won
01:06a world cup in 10 years so we've got to change the way we play change our approach to make sure that
01:11we've got a style of cricket and the players to be able to beat Australia beat England beat India
01:18South Africa New Zealand all those top teams.
01:20The team is without Chanel Henry because of a leg injury while Deandra Doughton sustained an injury
01:26while playing in the women's premier league in India. The coach sees it as a big loss for the West
01:30Indies team.
01:31Obviously missing two world class players obviously Deandra's been world class for a long time and
01:38you know she hurt her knee quick update she hurt her knee in the IPL and so she's going to be out for a
01:45bit longer and she should be back full fitness in a month or two so it's a shame we haven't got her
01:51and um you know she come back and made a huge impact to the team in the world cup last year
01:55and a real big impact in St Kitts against the Bangladesh series so we're going to miss her
02:01and obviously Chanel Henry's you know been a revelation in the last three or four months.
02:06IPL she hit the most sixes in the IPL again in regionals last week she made a great 100 in T20
02:12cricket. The side will be captained by Hayley Matthews with Shemaine Campbell as a deputy.
02:17When you would now I need to use export.
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