“The kind of quality that this team has, I think we don’t deserve to be going to the qualifiers,” Jangoo said. “It’s just that’s the position that we’re in. But we know the quality that we have in our dressing room… all the bowlers, even young Vitel Lawes that we see making a breakthrough in this series here. So it’s great signs to see. Going forward now, we have to play the right cricket and get those wins on the board for West Indies.”
“We haven’t batted 50 overs in three games now,” Jangoo said. “So I think that’s on us, something that we have to look at internally in ourselves as batsmen and see how much we can better ourselves. And we have one more game to rectify that.
“[It’s a] pretty difficult pill to swallow because we know how much was at stake here for this game. So it’s all about understanding where we went wrong. We know the quality that we have in our team. I think going forward, we know what we have to work on, and for the qualifiers, we’ll be ready.”
For New Zealand, meanwhile, it has been an impressive turnaround after they lost the opening match in Guyana. They followed that with two hard-working chases on tricky pitches at Providence before having just enough to scramble over the line in Barbados.
“There was nerves but I think Santner, he’s a pretty unflappable character, so for me to just kind of, I suppose, soak up a little bit of that calm energy was pretty nice,” Lennox said.
“That kind of knock is all about momentum,” Lennox said. “Losing a couple [of wickets] early is always hard, then when you get someone assess the conditions, soak up a little bit of pressure and then counterpunch, that puts a little bit of onus back on them to be more disciplined and figure out a way to take control which they kind of did to a degree towards the back end.”
