Trail­ing the best-of-five se­ries 0-2, the West In­dies need to win at the Daren Sam­my Crick­et Ground if they are to have any chance of win­ning the se­ries and avoid­ing their first T20 home se­ries loss since 2023.

Speak­ing to mem­bers of the me­dia on Wednes­day, ahead of to­day’s match, Pow­ell said every game of the se­ries was now like a fi­nal to the West In­dies.

“It’s a case of us get­ting back in­to the se­ries. We just need a win and once we get a win to­mor­row [Thurs­day] it sets up for a very ex­cit­ing week­end.

“The guys are up­beat of our chances of play­ing good crick­et against Eng­land even though we are 2-0 down. Hav­ing said that, the guys are in a good space, good frame of mind,” Pow­ell said.

How­ev­er, Pow­ell ad­mit­ted that be­ing down 0-2 in a T20 se­ries was not a po­si­tion they were ac­cus­tomed to.

“It’s a lit­tle un­com­fort­able to be hon­est. It’s a po­si­tion where we haven’t found our­selves in in a long time, but it’s an op­por­tu­ni­ty for us to show what we’re made of as a T20 team,” Pow­ell said.

“Eng­land is a team that we play quite of­ten, and we have some good re­sults against them. It’s just un­for­tu­nate that Bar­ba­dos wasn’t good for us in terms of T20 crick­et, but St Lu­cia gives us a new day to come out and play some good crick­et.”

Pow­ell said fol­low­ing two heavy loss­es at Kens­ing­ton Oval, a new venue in St Lu­cia af­ford­ed them a chance to re­group.

He said it was al­so im­por­tant for some play­ers in the team to do some ret­ro­spec­tion.

“I think it is a case of guys hav­ing to look at it from an in­di­vid­ual per­spec­tive to see if we as in­di­vid­u­als bring enough to the ta­ble and then we try our best to try and put it to­geth­er as a team.

“We have ar­eas that we def­i­nite­ly need to work on, so the guys are in good spir­its, we had a good train­ing ses­sion to­day, so hope­ful­ly come Thurs­day we can hit the ground run­ning,” Pow­ell said.

The cap­tain al­so wel­comed the re­turn of Alzarri Joseph, who missed the open­ing two T20Is af­ter serv­ing a two-game sus­pen­sion.

“If you look at our bowl­ing de­part­ment, we re­al­ly need­ed him. It’s im­por­tant for him to come and hit the straps and hit the ground run­ning,” Pow­ell said. (CMC)

West In­dies T20I Squad

Rov­man Pow­ell (Cap­tain), Ros­ton Chase, Matthew Forde, Shim­ron Het­my­er, Ter­rance Hinds, Shai Hope, Akeal Ho­sein, Alzarri Joseph, Bran­don King, Evin Lewis, Gu­dakesh Motie, Nicholas Pooran, Sher­fane Ruther­ford, Ro­mario Shep­herd, Shamar Springer.

Team Man­age­ment:

Daren Sam­my (Head Coach), Rawl Lewis(Team Man­ag­er), Ray­on Grif­fith (As­sis­tant Coach (Field­ing), Floyd Reifer ((As­sis­tant Coach-Bat­ting), James Franklin (As­sis­tant Coach - Bowl­ing), Dr. De­nis Byam ((Team Phys­io­ther­a­pist), Ronald Rogers (Strength & Con­di­tion­ing Coach), Dane Cur­ren­cy (Team Masseuse), Ave­nesh See­taram ((Team An­a­lyst), Jerome Fos­ter (Me­dia & Con­tent Of­fi­cer).