Having lost the first two T20Is West Indies will look to secure a consolation win in the final match today in Karachi from 09.00 hours.
Despite the losses, skipper Nicholas Pooran says the team is trying its best but it is a learning process and the team needs to be patient.
“It’s a learning process for us,” he said. It takes time to win and we understand that and we are very patient but at the same time we are trying our best to do the right things so the results could take care of itself,” he added.
According to Pooran, he is happy that the guys are showing promise with improvements coming showing in the second game after the disappointing first T20.
“I’m extremely happy with the performance of the team actually, we see Brandon King putting his hand up in last night’s game, Romario Shepherd, Odean Smith, Akeal Hosein, wonderful to see, this is what we want,” he declared.
The visitors surrendered by 63 runs in the first match but fell a mere nine runs short in the second encounter.
The positives include a half-century from King and spirited all-round efforts from Shepherd and Smith.
“The attitude is excellent. What we sit and talk about, we talk about learning as fast as possible, assessing, I am very happy to see these guys putting up their hands, no one gave us a chance coming here for sure but from the first game to second game you see a massive improvement, it is unfortunate we didn’t get over the line but we know why we didn’t get over the line and if we play this game a couple months down the road, we might be successful,” he explained.
Pooran reasoned, “I think we deserve, for the hard work we have put in for the last couple of days, we want to win, we deserve a victory, we are doing a lot of right things…we need to be patient and understand that it’s top a team we are playing so it’s not as easy as saying we want to win so we need to continue to do a lot of right things, continue to stay in the game and learn fast…”
Meanwhile, Pakistan will look to end the year on a high by extending their unbeaten streak in the format to six games. In fact, Pakistan have lost just six of their 28 matches this year.
The hosts are yet to be bowled out and the West Indies will need to find a way to counter Mohammed Rizwan (116 runs) and Haidar Ali (99 runs). The Pakistan fast bowlers have also been penetrating with Mohammad Wasim (six wickets) and Shaheen Shah Afridi (four wickets) leading the way.
