Machel St Patrick Hewitt

And when I was in the crowd, I was speaking to Carter Kea, who's in the Caribbean Cricket Podcast Discord, and I said to Carter Kea, 1-7-5 is what we should try and restrict Pakistan to.

1-8-9 was too much.

That's not to excuse the West Indies team.

That's not to say that...

That's not to try and say it's not disappointing that they didn't win, but I think that's where we can pinpoint where the victory was kind of prevented, so to speak.

Now, I do want to add some caveats because, again, the easy thing to do is to say, and they're this and they're that and they should have won this and this means that.

Let me just remind people.

Brandon King is injured, Evan Lewis is injured, Rothman Powell is injured, Shimron Hetmeyer is injured and Alzari Joseph is rested.

That's not to say that therefore we've got an excuse, but it is to say if we accept,

If we accept that West Indies' strength in depth isn't that good, then we should be able to accept that missing five first-team players will impact the ability to do things like chase 190, or even restrict the team, restrict Pakistan in this case, to less than 189.

And actually, do you know what this game showcased to me the most?

What this game showcased to me the most, and possibly across this series, is just how badly we missed the retired Nicholas Puram.

I just said it to Miles Bascombe at the end of the match, we were just talking about 15 minutes ago, and I said to Miles and some of the journalists around, I said, these matches in recent times have proved just how important a player Nicholas Puran is.

Nicholas Puran is the only player in the region that has the ability to hit spinners out of the attack,

He's 29 years old and he's retired.

Pakistan came here with a cadre of spinners that we struggled to know how to cope with.

And yes, this was a batting track, but in general, we struggled to know how to cope with.

Puran is one of the best hitters of spin in world cricket.

And I think these games have showcased why his retirement is so crucial to our team.

After Puran, Hetma can do it, but obviously...