00:00The West Indies men faced alien territory playing their first match at this venue since the start of the ICC
00:05T20 World Cup 2026.
00:07In contrast, South Africa played their fifth game at the Ahmedabad ground and were basically at home.
00:13However, Captain Shea Hope says his men needed to adapt quickly in this form of the game.
00:18Sometimes when you don't adapt and assess as quickly as you would like, then you find yourself playing catch-up.
00:23In this situation, I felt it was a very good service, actually kind of reminded me of a South African
00:28service.
00:29The way some of the services that we played on in the last series that we played against them.
00:34I felt as though maybe 40, 50, even 60 runs short the way how the pitch was playing.
00:40But again, as you said, maybe we didn't assess as well as we could have.
00:43And then obviously with the Wicked Sydney power play, we would always push us back.
00:47The stylish top-order batter took time to explain why a change was made to a winning squad.
00:52It was more of a tactical decision with Chase.
00:55So they've got a few destructive left-handers in their top order.
00:59And most of our bowling options were almost similar.
01:06So we're just trying to have a bit more variety from that front.
01:09It's very tough to leave out a guy who's been so good for us over many, many years, like Aki
01:14was saying.
01:15But I still think in a tournament like this, it's very important to make sure you're giving yourself the best
01:20chance in terms of pre-match or preparation.
01:24We just felt as though that would have been the best XI for today.
01:28You know, we still didn't execute as well as we wanted to.
01:30So we could always look back in hindsight and say, oh, this guy should have played, that guy should have
01:33played.
01:33But still boils down to the XI who goes out there.
01:36Whoever we choose, we're still backing each and every one 100% to get the job done for the team.
01:40The Windies now face a must-win situation in a virtual final against Host Nation India on Sunday.
01:46And Hope provided a short analysis of the current standing.
01:49Every opposition or every game you play now is supposed to be a challenge in some way.
01:54And this is the reason why it's the Super 8s.
01:57And then if you get to the semis in the finals, there's a reason why.
02:00Because it's the better teams or the best teams in the latter half of the stages of the tournament.
02:05So, again, I wouldn't say that it's anything to jump out the board.
02:09But, yeah, we've got to make sure we're playing a lot better cricket now.
02:12We see a situation that could face us in the next couple of days.
02:17So we've got to make sure we turn things around quickly and get a good result against India.
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