KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – West In­dies T20 cap­tain Rov­man Pow­ell has con­ced­ed that the re­gion­al team’s per­for­mance in the on­go­ing T20I se­ries against Bangladesh is “not good enough”.

The home side lost Sun­day’s open­ing T20I by sev­en runs and went down again to Bangladesh by 27 runs in Tues­day’s sec­ond match to give the vis­i­tors an unas­sail­able 2-0 lead in the three-match se­ries.

In both match­es, the Windies’ bats­men failed to fire. They were dis­missed for 140 in the first match and then skit­tled out for 102 on Tues­day night.

It was Bangladesh’s first T20 se­ries win over the West In­dies in six years.

It was the West In­dies’ sec­ond suc­ces­sive T20 se­ries de­feat at home fol­low­ing a 3-1 loss to Eng­land in their five-match se­ries last month.

Speak­ing to mem­bers of the me­dia fol­low­ing the loss on Tues­day, Pow­ell said the fail­ures of the top or­der con­tin­ued to be a prob­lem.

“It has be­come some­thing of ma­jor con­cern now, where we keep on dur­ing the du­ra­tion of the game make the same mis­takes.

“It is some­thing that needs rec­ti­fy­ing at the mo­ment,” Pow­ell said blunt­ly.

“I think it [the pitch] had a lit­tle more in it for the bowlers, but hav­ing said that, not be­ing able to chase 129 is not good and it’s not good enough at this lev­el.”

When ques­tioned as to why no changes were made to the side af­ter the open­ing match de­feat, Pow­ell said “chop­ping and chang­ing” was not the so­lu­tion.

“I think you have to show faith and courage in guys, keep chop­ping and chang­ing won’t be the an­swer.

“It’s guys play­ing and mak­ing mis­takes and learn­ing from those mis­takes. It’s just a case of us try­ing and hop­ing that guys won’t make the same mis­takes over and over,” Pow­ell said.

CMC