Davis admits lack of consistency hurting Windies

Davis said top cricket teams perform at a high level consistently, something the West Indies have failed to do. Davis was disappointed with the West Indies effort saying, “That is a very poor performance.

“You might say Saturday is a good performance, but only one man performed so therefore you are talking about one man performing in every seven or eight matches and happen to win a match. They are not getting any consistent performances and that is what a good team is based on - consistency.” In the third ODI on Saturday, opener Evin Lewis slammed 91 to lead West Indies to a seven- wicket win, the only victory for West Indies in the series.

The West Indies batsmen were below par throughout the series, but Davis said the bowlers were also not up to standard.

“Our bowlers are not up to that standard. (Sunil) Narine might be the only one (at a high standard), but if you are not surrounded by players who know what they are doing, you will find that you struggle a bit.” Davis said all the West Indies bowlers struggled to find a consistent line and length, even Narine. The former West Indies batsman says West Indies T20 captain Carlos Brathwaite and Jason Holder are not international bowlers, saying Holder had promise earlier in his career but when he was given the job as ODI and Test captain it affected his development.

Davis said the West Indies bowlers made life easy for the Pakistan batsmen. “If they (Pakistan batsmen) know they are going to get two or three bad balls an over, the batsmen could play the good ball and just wait for the bad ball to come because he know that is four runs.” There were 66 dot balls during the West Indies innings in the fourth T20 on Sunday and Davis credited Pakistan for their accuracy. “The Pakistan bowling was most accurate and their fielding was very sharp, so the 66 balls came about because they just could not get the singles, the bowling is tight, the bowling is good.”