00:00The West Indies beat home team Ireland by 62 runs in the third T20 to clinch the series
00:051-0 after the first two games were rained out.
00:09Evan Lewis scored 91, while captain Shea Hope made 51 and Casey Carty got an unbeaten 49.
00:16According to the West Indies skipper, it was a much needed win after the men in Maroon
00:20were whitewashed 3-0 in England in both the whiteboard formats.
00:24It's very important, especially after the back of that English series that we had a
00:29couple of days ago.
00:30You know, they basically gave us a battering, so it's great to finish the UK toward our
00:34high.
00:35Wonderful display from the batterers today, especially Evan getting that good start and
00:39you know, once he gets flowing, he's a very destructive batter.
00:42So happy to see the guys, you know, raising their hands in the batting group and hopefully
00:45we can continue like that as a team.
00:47The West Indies scored 256 for 5 from their 20 overs before restricting their opponents
00:53to 194 for 7.
00:56The 31-year-old hopes that the West Indies can display that type of aggression moving
01:00forward.
01:01I believe that's the brand of cricket that we're trying to play.
01:04It's something that we always speak about, throwing that first punch, ensuring we put
01:08pressure on their bowlers, don't allow them to settle as much.
01:11It's something I felt as though we lacked a bit in the England series.
01:15But yeah, it's great to see the guys really finishing this one on a high, you know, we didn't
01:19get cricket in the first two 20-20 eyes.
01:21But just to finish the tour on a high, displaying the way we want to go about playing our cricket
01:25was a great thing to see.
01:26Having said that, Hope is concerned about the West Indies' bowling in the abridged version.
01:31It's something the Caribbean cricketers have to work on, with the next T20 series being
01:36a five-match contest against the visiting Australians in July.
01:40So we struggled to take wickets in the power play to put other teams under pressure.
01:45And that's something that we did today.
01:47Unfortunately, we had chances with the ball, but we didn't take them.
01:50Let's say we caught those two batters, Tector and the other opener, then things could have
01:56been a lot more different.
01:57We could have probably taken three, four in the power play.
02:00So again, things that we're trying to improve on as a team.
02:04We're getting there, but it's still a work in progress.
02:07After the Australia series, the Windies play Pakistan in three T20s in the Caribbean.
02:13And what does Hope want to achieve against the two sides?
02:17I want to see consistency.
02:19We need to defend home court.
02:22We've been very good at home the last couple of years, barring that last T20 series there
02:27against Bangladesh and St. Vincent.
02:29But we've got to continue playing the cricket that we want to play.
02:32Hope says the objective is to tick all the boxes leading up to next year's T20 World Cup in India
02:36and Sri Lanka.
02:38Vinod Nawani chiefs export.
02:40I'm not half a fan.
02:42Just too much.
02:43But that idea is to take a sample because it's just too much.
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