West Indies all rounder Darren Sammy says the West Indies team needs to find inspiration and find it quickly.
He made the comments after the West Indies went down to Ireland by four wickets in their opening match of the 2015 ICC Cricket World at Nelson in New Zealand.
Batting first the West Indies made 303 for seven with Sammy getting 89 and Lendl Simmons 102. Ireland then got 92 from Paul Stirling, 84 from Ed Joyce and 79 not out from Niall O'Brien to record a most famous win.
Sammy the former captain said :" We have not been playing the brand of cricket that allows us to win matches. To recover from 80 for five to that score, we did well and should have won. Our bowlers have been going for stick over the last few games and it was no difference today.
"The Irish team is an experienced one and we didn't bowl well against them at all. The partnership between Simmons and I should have been motivation for the bowlers to want to run into the Irish. We were lackadaisical, we told ourselves we made 300 runs and that should have won us the match.
"We took them for granted and we paid the price. If we continue to play like that we won't be here for long that is for sure. As a group we need to find some motivation somewhere and find it quickly. When things are going wrong it is hard to motivate but we can't give up."
Sammy said he thinks the West Indies can still make it into the knockout stages of the tournament. "You win four out of five or four out of six and you can still get into quarters. We still believe we can make it into the top four of this group, we just have to put a full game of cricket together."
Although batting became easier as the day wore on, the St Lucian said that was no excuse for the West Indies loss. "The pitch was better to bat on later, when we batted it was a bit spongy. I guess the heavy roller would have assisted in flattening out the pitch which led to no sideways movement and better batting conditions. However, this is not an excuse and we need to look at ourselves and turn around quickly."
