LA­HORE, Pak­istan – With West In­dies Women’s chances of qual­i­fy­ing for the 2025 Women’s World Cup hang­ing by a thread, head coach Shane Deitz has ad­mit­ted that the re­gion­al side has been a dis­ap­point­ment at the tour­na­ment so far.

West In­dies Women fell to their sec­ond de­feat in three match­es at the World Cup Qual­i­fiers on Mon­day, when they went down to Pak­istan Women by 65 runs.

The re­sult fol­lowed their open­ing round loss to min­nows Scot­land, and a tense six-run vic­to­ry over Ire­land.

It left them on just two points and with on­ly two match­es re­main­ing, need­ing a mir­a­cle to fin­ish as one of the top two teams to book an au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion spot to the World Cup, sched­uled to be­gin in In­dia in Sep­tem­ber.

Speak­ing to the me­dia fol­low­ing the de­feat, Deitz said the re­sults thus far had been very dis­ap­point­ing.

“Ob­vi­ous­ly, now we have to re­cov­er. We have two big games to come, train well in a cou­ple days and come out fight­ing hard in our last two games. Any­thing can hap­pen, crick­et is a fun­ny game.

“We’re just go­ing to fo­cus on fin­ish­ing well and play­ing some re­al­ly good crick­et and giv­ing our fans some­thing to cheer about, be­cause ob­vi­ous­ly we’ve let them down, we’ve let our­selves down and let all of our fans in the Caribbean down, which is re­al dis­ap­point­ing” Deitz said.

West In­dies Women cur­rent­ly sit fourth in the six-team stand­ings, be­hind un­beat­en Pak­istan on six points and Bangladesh and Scot­land on four points each.

While Deitz ac­knowl­edged that the re­gion­al side would need some luck to qual­i­fy, he said they had not yet giv­en up hope.

He said their main fo­cus was now on win­ning their fi­nal two games against Bangladesh and Thai­land.

“We’re go­ing to fight back and the on­ly way to do it is to train hard, get to­geth­er and stick to­geth­er as a team and come out fight­ing these last two games.

“Hope­ful­ly a few things go our way, a mir­a­cle can hap­pen, but all we can do is play well these last few games and fin­ish this tour­na­ment well and then re­group and see where we go from there,” Deitz said.

CMC