West Indies captain Kieron Pollard said that his team lost the first one-day international to Sri Lanka at the SSC on Saturday due to the indiscipline of his bowling unit that conceded 14 wides in a total of 26 extras.
Sri Lanka squeezed home by one wicket with five balls to spare and Pollard was of the view it could have been a different story had his bowlers not given the opposition extra balls and runs in their chase of 290.
“In international cricket you’ve got to be consistent. And 14 wides in an international game - that’s two overs and a bit of extra runs and extra deliveries. We gave Sri Lanka 52 overs to chase the target,” said Pollard. “Even in the practice games we were pretty high on the extras. Our discipline was off, and hopefully the guys can take a look at that and have a better showing come the next game,” he said.
Commenting on the West Indies batting Pollard said, “That was the highest score in this ground out here. I thought we batted well. Shai (Hope) playing his role tremendously well [to score a hundred], and young [Darren] Bravo coming back into the set up and getting a start. Roston Chase getting a start as well. I thought what let us down was wickets in the middle. A couple of run outs and (Nicholas) Pooran and myself getting out to soft dismissals. That’s what stopped us getting to 300 to 320 plus. All in all the bowlers let us down. Sri Lanka got off to a flyer and we were always playing catch-up having put only 290 on the board.”
- ST
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