West Indies Women head coach Shane Deitz expressed disappointment at the batting performances in the recently concluded CG United Women’s Super50 Cup in St. Kitts.

Throughout the tournament, no player scored a hundred with the highest individual score being 88* by Leeward Islands Women captain Amanda Edwards.

The numbers show that there was also a glaring weakness against spin across the board with the top five highest wicket-takers all being spinners.

While crediting the spin bowling displays he saw in the tournament, the bigger story, according to Deitz, was the general lack of ability to combat it.

“The spin bowling on a whole across the whole tournament was a big positive. The main thing standing out to me was the batting and the lack of scores, low strike rates, no big hundreds made by anyone in the whole tournament so, the batting side of it, particularly playing spin bowling, is a bit of a concern moving forward,” he said during a CWI Media Interaction on Monday.

He was particularly critical of the younger players, noting that they need to improve in order to knock on the door of consistent international selection.

“We need them to start learning to be international cricketers and start pushing for their selection in the West Indies team,” he said.

With the team’s next assignment being the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifiers in Pakistan from April 4-19, conditions will mean that the batters will have to face a lot of spin bowling.

As such, Deitz says plans are already being put in place to improve the batters’ ability against slow bowling.

“Moving forward, we’re putting some plans together for how to tackle that and that’s a big improvement we need to do because, obviously, playing most teams in women’s cricket, spin is a big factor,” he said.

“We just played a series against Bangladesh where they pretty much only bowled spin to us and we’re going to the qualifiers with Pakistan, Bangladesh and Thailand who will be bowling 90-95% spin bowling to us,” Deitz added.

On a more positive note, Deitz praised champions Trinidad & Tobago for bouncing back from their opening round defeat to go on and win the title, praising their tactical prowess and the leadership of Karishma Ramharack.

“It was great to see Trinidad & Tobago fight back from a loss in their first game to take the title and they really had some good plans and executed those plans and strategies really well,” he said.

“I saw good captaincy from Ramharack, stepping up as she did for us in the game against Bangladesh,” added Deitz.