Are the West Indies Women improving?
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What is the current state of the West Indies women's cricket team?
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This is Kimo Oroch, and I listen to the Caribbean Cricket Podcast.
Yes, yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition of the Caribbean Cricket Podcast. I'm on half the Caribbean Cricket Podcast, Mashal St. Patrick Hewitt, and we are looking at the West Indies women's team today.
How did the West Indies perform against England and South Africa?
A very, very brief video, and I've been numbing and gnawing as to when to drop this video, because obviously, right now, the women's team are involved in a T20 series versus South Africa women at home. So... It kind of felt hard to know. So if I didn't drop it straight after the England tour, the next best time to drop it, I felt, was at the end of the limited overs, back-to-back limited overs series against South Africa. But what I've done is for this specific video, I'm going to focus on the ODI team specifically.
What are the implications of Deandra Dottin's absence for the team?
But with a bit of a look at the T20, but more so on the ODI team. And that's why the title says, are the West Indies women's team improving? Now, hear me out. Because obviously, a couple of the uncles immediately, before they've even listened to two minutes of this video, will immediately type in the comments, no, Shane Dietz needs to be sacked. The women's team is useless. This, that, this, that. And fine, everyone's entitled to their opinion. But I actually reckon... Now, obviously, the World Cup qualifiers were a disaster in so much as when you looked at the groupings for the World Cup qualifiers, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Scotland, Ireland, Thailand, we went into that probably thinking we should get through if we perform to our capabilities.
Deandre Dottin's absence injury notwithstanding, there was a sense of if we perform, we should get through.
Which players are showing signs of improvement in the West Indies team?
Unfortunately, we left it too little, too late to get through. Nearly did. But in hindsight, maybe it was a good thing that we didn't get through. And Shane Dietz has been quick to kind of say this. I saw him do an interview with Alex Jordan in the last week or so where he basically said, yeah, well, West Indies women have been playing subpar old guy cricket for a long time now. You could argue that it predates... It predates Shane Dietz in terms of subpar OGI cricket. And I actually think that the women's team is in a transition period. This is not me trying to run interference for Shane Dietz. This is not me trying to give the women an excuse.
What does the data say about the recent performances of key players?
But I genuinely believe they're in a transition period. We already done know. And even if you think that such and such should go and you want to blame this man and that person and so on and so forth, anybody with any cricketing knowledge or sense in the region knows that the women in general are here and hayley is is all the way up there right so we kind of coined the phrase um on caribbean cricket podcast that for the women's team it's very much hayley and prayers but what i've liked in the last so we've played um six old eyes right in the last what two months or so three in england three at home versus south africa this is since the world world cup and we've only won one right And on paper, going to England, I expected us to lose 3-0.
On paper, at home against South Africa, after the England series, you could have said, well, West Indies might lose that one 3-0 as well. So arguably, winning one out of six against England and South Africa, in the oldies, you might argue is actually par. Or some might even say that's better than expected. But that's missing the bigger picture that I want to hint at here. What I've seen in the last six games, and remember two of those games against England, Hayley wasn't available, right?
How is the coaching strategy impacting the team's development?
And again, in hindsight, brilliant that Hayley wasn't available. Not brilliant if we wanted to try and be super competitive, but brilliant in terms of putting the rest of the women's team in a position where they were forced to have to stand up. and not look to Hayley and say, well, she might do something and then the rest of us can ride off her coattails and maybe do a team collective. Without Hayley for two of the games in England, it forced people to have to step up.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the current state of the West Indies women's cricket team?
0:00–0:56
2
How did the West Indies perform against England and South Africa?
0:56–1:30
3
What are the implications of Deandra Dottin's absence for the team?
1:30–2:27
4
Which players are showing signs of improvement in the West Indies team?
2:27–3:11
5
What does the data say about the recent performances of key players?
3:11–4:31
6
How is the coaching strategy impacting the team's development?
4:31–5:26
7
What challenges does Stafanie Taylor's injury pose for the team?
5:26–6:08
8
What is the future outlook for the West Indies women's cricket team?
6:08–19:09
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