ICC World Cup 2019 | West Indies need to be consistent to go far in the tournament, says Curtly Ambrose

05/22/2019

Curtly Ambrose believes that the Windies certainly have the ability to go far in the tournament, but they need to be more consistent. Although Ambrose admitted that Bangladesh is a potent team to beat them, he was surprised in Windies’ regular loss to the Asian nation in ODI cricket.

Windies were rolled by Bangladesh in the final after Mosaddek Hossain's blinder, which was the perfect follow-up to the start provided by Soumya Sarkar in the tri-series final in Ireland. For all the progress by Bangladesh in recent years, the result was surprising considering Windies’ recent form. Most importantly, they lost to Bangladesh thrice in the competition - twice in the round-robin phase and then in the final on Friday - and that surprised Ambrose.

“I’m a little bit surprised. Bangladesh are a decent team, so I wouldn’t want to say that the West Indies should just walk all over them. That’s not the case,” Ambrose was quoted as saying by the Jamaica-based newspaper The Gleaner.

“But I still don’t believe they should have beaten us so many times now, so that has come as a bit of a surprise.

However, Ambrose believes that the team has enough fire-power in their ranks to go all the way in the World Cup, but they need to be more consistent in their approach and if they can do that, the team will be a force to be reckoned with.

“I’m just hoping we can do a lot better come the end of this month and our first World Cup game because I feel we have a strong enough team to go far in this tournament (World Cup), but we have to be consistent. That will be the key. If we’re not consistent, we won’t go far.”

“My concern is that we are not consistent. If we remain consistent in this World Cup, we’re going to create some surprises and do much better than most people think.”