00:01The West Indies made a poor start to the T20 series against Pakistan, losing the opener in Fort Lauderdale by 14 runs.
00:07It means they have to win the remaining two matches to clinch the series and to also redeem themselves following a 5-0 drubbing at the hands of Australia.
00:15Windy skipper Shehope is urging his players to perform better in all departments of the game.
00:19More consistent performance in all three areas of the game.
00:23It's important for us to bowl well, feel well and bat well.
00:26Something that we haven't been doing consistently as a team.
00:30It's something that we certainly need to turn things around to get those positive results.
00:34According to the Windy's captain, Pakistan's 178 was a decent score, but it should have been overhauled.
00:41Hope feels the Windy's batters should have rotated the strike better when playing the slower bowlers.
00:45They've got some quality spinners in their line-up and you can see how difficult it was for us as a batting group.
00:50But also we realized how important it was to limit those dot balls because I think we had close to 60 dot balls.
00:57That was almost 10 overs of dot balls in the innings and we lost by 14 runs.
01:01So let's say we had 20 singles out of those dots, then it would have been a different game.
01:0518-year-old keeper batter jewel Andrew became the youngest West Indian to make his T20 debut in that match.
01:11Andrew made 35 as an opener from 33 balls and Hope expects the Antiguan to have a bright future ahead of him.
01:17He's a quality player. When you look at him, you can just see class.
01:23He's shown that he can play at this level. He's got the skills, certainly got all the shots that we can think of.
01:30But it's just about him getting better understanding how to go about his batting, building innings and just growing as a batter.
01:36And if he does that, I think he's going to be a legend in this game. He's a quality player already.
01:40The second T20 takes place on Saturday and the third on Sunday, also in Fort Lauderdale.
01:46That's to be followed by three ODIs between the two teams in Teruba.
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