It is gutting – Reece Topley deflated as England leave West Indies empty-handed

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Reece Topley admitted he felt deflated at England dropping their T20 collection decider towards the West Indies.

Two days after compiling their highest T20 whole of 267 for 3, England subsided to 132 all out in 19.3 overs on the identical pitch on the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba, which was a lot trickier to bat on.

Despite the perfect efforts of their bowlers England tumbled to a four-wicket defeat as the Windies had been grateful for Shai Hope’s environment friendly run-a-ball 43 not out to get them residence with 4 balls to spare.

On a visit that doubled as a reconnaissance mission for the 2024 T20 World Cup, England can take some positives away, not least from battling again from 2-0 right down to arrange a winner-takes-all showdown.

But a World Cup group stage exit has now been adopted by ODI and T20 collection defeats towards the Windies and Topley acknowledged there could be no excuses at leaving the Caribbean empty-handed.

“I was so excited to turn up here because it was basically like a final and those are the games you want to play in and be on the right side of,” he mentioned.

“It is gutting. There’s a lot of talk about Test cricket being the priority and there’s some faces missing here but when we come up against the guys, they’ve got a lot of their main players here.

“The bottom line is you want to win this series, especially as a player where white-ball cricket is my Test cricket so I want to win every series I can for England.”

This was the Windies’ fourth successive collection win over England in all codecs, constructed on Gudakesh Motie’s three for twenty-four with fellow sluggish left-armer Akeal Hosein taking two for 20.

Phil Salt adopted up his back-to-back tons of by top-scoring with 38 off 22 balls, solely prised from the crease by a peach from Motie, who produced drift then sharp flip to uproot center stump.

England struggled from then on and misplaced their final 5 wickets in 19 balls for 11 runs though Topley’s two for 17 and Adil Rashid’s two for 21 made positive the chase was something however a cakewalk.

“The other day there was another wicket made up next to our strip but it was their decision to play on the same wicket again, probably knowing it brings spin into the game a little bit more,” Topley mentioned.

“It’s been an amazing series, both teams have played some unbelievable cricket.

“We’ve taken a lot from this series, there’s the World Cup here next year but there’s also some fresh faces that have been exposed to top-level international cricket and some have taken to it really well.”

While his efforts had been in useless, Topley has enhanced his case for the T20 World Cup subsequent June after being missed for the primary two matches following the damaged finger which ended his World Cup early.

“Obviously no one likes to be left out and I was thinking about why I was left out for the first two,” Topley mentioned.

“But then I had a point to prove, almost, coming back in and I’d like to think that maybe I’d have justified being selected after the third game.”

Windies captain Rovman Powell was glad his staff held their nerve after back-to-back defeats however admitted they aren’t the completed article for the T20 World Cup they’re co-hosting.

“I think we are prepared for the World Cup but there are still areas where we need to sharpen up, especially our bowling,” Powell mentioned. “Two games back-to-back England beat us badly as a bowling group.

“There is a lot of work for us to do, so hopefully over the next few months we can sharpen up and get those areas sorted.”