IT’S A DISASTER, HONEST CHEVRONS COACH SAYS
CHEVRONS coach, Dave Houghton, has conceded that the team’s batting has been very poor and things were even getting worse.
He described the situation as a DISASTER.
“I think we have been playing some bad cricket for a while now,” he said candidly.
“But, I think it’s also pretty clear to see that our batting has been a disaster for the last few months and it’s not getting any better.
“I knew when I came in that we weren’t a long batting line up and that we had some senior players.
“The thing about having senior and junior players is that you need your seniors to stand up and they give courage to the rest of the team but, unfortunately, on this tour we have lost all our senior players to injury, suspension and everything else and the up-and-coming batsman have just not been good enough, so that makes it very difficult to compete.
“We are always 50 or 100 short of what we need to be competitive.
“We should have been scoring on average 250 on a 50-over game.
“Today (Sunday) we were set up, at one stage, we should have got 240, but we ended up getting 197 so we have been letting ourselves down with the bat on every single occasion.”
He added:
“The problem is just purely a confidence thing. It’s not easy to just put your hand on something and change the confidence within the team.
“When you start to lose a couple of games, you lose the confidence and so you will know when I first came in, we played a completely different brand of cricket that comes with confidence.
“We are not playing one shot like that now and that is confidence. If the confidence is gone, as we have lost a couple of games, it’s gotten worse and worse.
“So it needs to change, maybe we should bring in a couple of consultants, different voices in the change room, maybe that can help change things,” he said.
The Chevrons are set to tour Sri Lanka early next year.