Head coach reveals reason for West Indies' loss to Scotland
The West Indies bowlers did a good job to restrict Scotland to 160/5 on a track that looked pretty good for batting. Pacers Alzarri Joseph and Jason Holder shone with the ball as they picked up a couple of wickets each and also proved to be economical.
However, the batters weren't up to the task as they lost half of their side for just 69 runs. Holder tried his best to resurrect their innings with his 33-ball knock of 38 but the Caribbean side was ultimately bowled out for 118 with nine balls to spare.
West Indies' coach Simmons opined that their bowlers worked hard but the batters let the team down in the post-match press conference.
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"I think the only way you can look at it is - disappointed. I think our batting, at least today, definitely was a bit unprofessional," Simmons said.
"And we need to wake up and start being as professional as we can be when we are batting. The bowlers seem to be working hard and putting us in good positions, but the batters continue to falter.
"I think it's just too many soft dismissals. I think as batsmen you have to pay a lot more attention to your wicket. And I think every time, we play we are up there with the run rate.
"It doesn't matter who we are playing against, but we keep losing wickets and soft wickets. So I think that I've been trying to remedy it for the last couple of months. Doesn't seem like it's there yet."
The 59-year-old further went on to say that the West Indies batters were poor with their shot selection in the match and they didn't play according to the situation at all.
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"You summed it up there [when asked if shot selection was poor]. You don't need me to answer it. And that's exactly it. You've got to sum up the situation and play to the situation of the game. I don't think we did that at all times today.
"As I said before, the bowlers have been doing an excellent job. We've been doing very well for the last year. So for them to pull it back after that was expected from us. So I think they did a great job.
"We need to beat Zimbabwe. I think that's the first step as we go along. When we get back here at this time on Wednesday, then we may be thinking a lot different on all those things you spoke about."