Brathwaite: ' Our batting work in the first wickets was not great enough'

Despite the loss, the West Indies captain reckoned there were a lot of positive to draw from the two-Test set

West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite reckoned that never taking the lead despite bowling South Africa out for 160 in the first pitches of the following Check was a key reason behind his team's 40-run decline in Providence.

South Africa was 97 for 9 when the West Indies batsmen, led by Shamar Joseph's five-wicket drag, elected to bird. For the last wicket, Dane Piedt and Nandre Burger added a 63-run stand to make it 160. West Indies were then bowled out for 144, giving up a 16-run result.

While Brathwaite agreed that South Africa's last-wicket walk was important, but felt West Indies ' batting work in the first pitches was" only not large enough. "

" Yeah, if you look at it, evidently it was quite great," Brathwaite said on South Africa's last-wicket walk on the opening day of the Test. " But bowling them out for 160, I was glad. That association for them was, was great. You know, it's cricket where alliances do occur. So, I wo n't really stress on that too much.

However, I would suggest that the entire for our first innings had to be higher. We needed to use it as a source of information. I think that was very significant. You can never complain about the bowlers ' effort to bowl them out for 160 but yeah, the batting effort in the first innings just was n't big enough. We had to resume the activity. And, in the end, we fell small. "

West Indies had a few good things to learn from the two games, despite losing the line 1-0 after the first Test ended in draw. Shamar Joseph returned to the South Africa leading order with a 5 for 33 in the opening test match. Jayden Seales was West Indies ' highest wicket-taker with 12 which included 6 for 61 in the second innings in Providence while Jason Holder scored a half-century in the first innings. Alick Athanaze is another person Brathwaite sees scoring" a lot of Test lots" as well.

" I think bowling-wise, you look at Shamar coming back in, not playing the first Test, and coming in bowling out South Africa on the first day. Jayden throughout the collection, continued to keep coming despite the popular conditions. That was a beneficial," Brathwaite said. " You see the two spinner, one of the first time two bowlers played together in the Caribbean, and they did well, in particular this game where both of them were under three runs an around. That's one issue we asked for, and that was wonderful to see.

Alick's pitches, in my opinion, were crucial to keeping his baseball batsmanship going. Alick has a world of ability. I can see him scoring a lot of Test plenty, but we just got to keep thinking about our activity, finding ways to improve. Really pleased with the ball work throughout the collection, and batting-wise, we scored above 200 in three of the wickets. So it is just for us to target to do it more regularly, and that's always the process. We often hear about being constant. And I believe that the goal is to improve. "

While the idea of Alzarri Joseph, Shamar Joseph and Seales in coming Check matches serves as a tasty idea, Brathwaite also pointed out that he is very excited about the batting system.

" As I said, the prospect is very beautiful for our strong ball system, and we've also got Kemar Roach, with lots of experience on it. You're aware that he still has a lot of Examine games to play. So it's really fascinating," Brathwaite said. " But I may say, I'm really excited about the batting system. I actually think the line-up we have, can do the job. And certainly, I've been asking for more Test games. We had five on the up. And yes, we did n't come out with guys averaging above 50. However, I believe that once we can learn from this, things will get easier. Of course, being mentally strong is crucial when playing Test matches.

I'm excited for the quick bowlers, but I'm also confident that West Indies' leading five you would a good job. Thus, we really got to keep believing. "