Ian Bishop Can't Digest West Indies' Ouster From ICC World Cup 2023, Questions Acceptability Of The Scenario

Former cricketer and commentator Ian Bishop expressed his disappointment with the West Indies team’s elimination from the ongoing ODI World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe. Ian Bishop highlighted the factors that led to their team’s exit from the race for a spot at the ODI World Cup 2023.

The West Indies team missed the ODI World Cup for the first time in their history. The Men in Maroon have been a part of every World Cup campaign since the inaugural edition in 1975. They were successful in winning the tournament in the first two editions but were unable to win another title.

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Nothing Has Worked For Them – Ian Bishop

In a post-match conversation with Carlos Brathwaite, Ian Bishop mentioned that despite making changes such as a new captain, a new coach, and other adjustments, the team’s results did not meet their expectations.

“It’s been written and signed. It’s been a dramatic fall from grace for the former two times winner of the Cricket World Cup, two time World T20 champions. Nothing has worked for them be it change of captain, change of coach, change who you want, the results have still gone against what was expected,” Bishop said.

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“West Indies are a full member nation. They must have come with a high hope but the group stages were disappointment in the level of performance certainly in the field and with the bat, it begs the question is it an acceptable level by the West Indies’ display,” he added.

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Challenge In Getting Team Bowled Out – Carlos Brathwaite

Carlos Brathwaite highlighted that one of the main concerns for the West Indies team was their inability to bowl out the opposition in the majority of their recent matches.

“It has been a long time coming. We missed out on T20 World Cup last year. There has been troubles in the past but this is the lowest you can go.

They got over against USA but they didn’t managed to roll them over or even bowl them out. It wasn’t clinical enough. As a result the same attitude then transpired and it became worse as they went on,” Braithwaite said.

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“They got found out against Netherlands and Zimbabwe, who were more professional opponents. Sikandar Raza and Ryan Burl made them pay and then against Netherlands they were paid for their low standard. Against Scotland they bolted and this is the end result.

In the last 18 ODIs. we have only managed to get ten wickets on seven occasion. There is a challenge in getting team bowled out,” he added.

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