We needed to be better - Kane Williamson

Kane Williamson ended up in an odd position, retrospecting on a competition two games into it. New Zealand face a veritable possibility of disposal from the 2024 T20 World Cup in the gathering stages after rout to West Indies in Trinidad left them helpless before different outcomes. A success for in-structure Afghanistan tomorrow against Papua New Guinea will guarantee they'll not be at the elimination round phase of an ICC white-ball World Cup interestingly starting around 2015. The New Zealand chief was inquired as to whether it felt dreamlike to consider that the competition could be over for his side so rapidly after a fairly late starting which saw them highlight first in the fourteenth round of the competition. "It is a smidgen," he answered. "Sitting, holding back to play and afterward to play kind of two in very speedy progression and what has been trying from various points of view and two exceptionally amazing groups. Yet additionally conditions that I think we've seen all through the opposition that have ended up being testing - so we generally expect that that is the thing it will be and the edges are tiny on these wickets and it's simply attempting to track down ways of going after specific little pieces of the game to fundamentally push the group ahead in light of the fact that there doesn't seem, by all accounts, to be a ton of mood in what we see yet it's there before us, it's the test that is there, that is set and we really want to attempt to improve. "No doubt, baffling, totally, to begin the manner in which we have. The circumstances are no different for everyone, so it's attempting to learn. We have a game again [vs Uganda] rapidly thus we really want to get better for the experience, we want to put out superior exhibitions and gain that information however like you referenced the condition is looking intense." New Zealand were consistently facing it in the capability race following loss to Afghanistan. In a gathering with extreme competitors, early mishaps against one of them can gain ground precarious as India found out in 2021. All things considered, New Zealand started well against West Indies with the co-hosts of the competition decreased to 30 for 5 inside the seventh over. What followed was a huge recuperation driven by Sherfane Rutherford, who impacted an unbeaten 68 off 39 to control his group to an eventually game dominating all out of 149. In the journey to bowl West Indies out, Williamson bet on frontloading his quick bowlers and that left him bowling overs 19 and 20 with Daryl Mitchell and Mitchell Santner separately. As it turned those two overs cost New Zealand 37 runs and swung the energy of the challenge fiercely. "Better believe it, we realize that we expected to get Rutherford out and I think the batting profundity of the West Indies side truly radiated through as advantageous for them, absolutely today on that surface," Williamson said. "You know it will be rough; you realize that three balls here or three balls there can truly place the score better than expected and that is the very thing they had the option to do. Thus, for us to attempt to take that wicket and attempt to have the amazing chance to kind of confine them in that 120 district, I believe merited doing and didn't exactly pay off. "I figure anything overs that they [Mitchell and Santner] bowled would have been focused on as that is the kind of the edges that you're continuously managing, I think, in T20 cricket these days with groups that are batting much more profound. As, you're continuously attempting to kind of act slyly, I assume." "See, from 90 for seven, anything the West Indies were, to get to 150 was a phenomenal exertion and staggeringly shrewd and determined batting from Rutherford. To set a commitment like that up on that surface was elite and truly got them a solid complete on that wicket. Having said that, it's a portion of a match and we realize that we want to accomplish some extreme work in that subsequent innings and attempt to get an over or two that you can attempt to tear the game open. We couldn't do that. We realized it would be extreme and I thought the folks contended energetically. Yet, the West Indies realize these circumstances well and they're playing great cricket and like I say, sadly, it wasn't to be today." Rout and the chance of an early exit in any case, Williamson subdued the 'conclusion of an important time period' story. "I believe there's actually folks that will be hanging around for quite a while," he said. "I suppose assuming we take a gander at the two matches to get going, presumably they've been frustrating. You come to a world occasion; you need to begin well. Also, frankly, we expected to explicitly have been exceptional in these circumstances. We realize that it will be a genuine piece and it won't be simple yet on the off chance that you win a few little minutes, matchups turn out well for you that can be a characterizing component to your entire competition, as a matter of fact and it hasn't occurred for us which is baffling yet presumably after competitions like this you return to what it is that you do and how you make it happen and the circumstances that you've encountered and take a gander at ways of improving. "Thus, it's attempting to be somewhat more clinical and close overs out too as we can. It's difficult. The groups areas of strength for are stirred things up around town well and afterward with the bat it's attempting to truly do the inverse. It's attempting to uncover specific pieces of an innings where you can acquire an advantage. In any case, it's a genuine battle, a genuine wrestle concerning the style of cricket, yet we want to push ahead into the following match having been exceptional for the encounters that we have had."