0-3 whitewash looks embarrassing but we fought hard, says Carlos Brathwaite

CHENNAI: West Indies T20 captain Carlos Brathwaite has admitted that the 0-3 whitewash was certainly "embarrassing", however mentioned the struggle that they had proven with limited resources was the "hallmark" for the visitors in the just-concluded series.

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India defeated reigning international champions West Indies through six wickets in the final T20 on Sunday night time to clean sweep the three-match series.

"I mean, three-nought looks bad, and it looks embarrassing for me as captain as well. But the performances and fight we gave and the fact that we came together to use our resources to the best of our abilities was the hallmark for this short series for me," Brathwaite mentioned on the post-match press conference.

"The team morale is up. What we are doing as a group is trying to find the best to use the resources we have. In the first game, we showed our fight, we showed our belief with the ball," he mentioned.

"In the second game, we were blown away, and in the third game we batted excellently, but the game was taken away from us by a massive partnership. We still fought till the end."

Brathwaite additionally heaped praise on young batsman Nicholas Pooran, who smashed a 25-ball 53 on Sunday.

"It wasn't just about his (Pooran's) big hitting. He played some reverse scoops and he paced his innings very well. Obviously, the sixes will take the highlight, but let's not forget how slowly he started. Getting the pace of the wicket, lining up the bowlers and then choosing the right time to strike," Brathwaite mentioned.

"So massive credit to Nicholas who missed the first game, didn't get a start in the second but he was always positive and. As a team, we want that performance again from him."

Brathwaite mentioned West Indies cricket wishes its gamers to put up performances on a consistent basis.

"And, you know, as a team that's what we have -- the ability for players to take the game away from the opposition and play a knock such as that (of Pooran). The challenge for us to do that on a more consistent basis. We know we have 3,4 match-winners in the side who can blow the opposition away," he mentioned.

He additionally hailed comeback guy Darren Bravo, who scored 43 and placed on a key partnership with Pooran to put the foundation in the heart overs.

"Darren Bravo's knock was good as well. He laid the foundation in the middle overs. He batted all the way through, so we had good solid performances with the bat. "Obviously, Nicholas gets the plaudits as a result of he raised his bat, however credit score should pass to the opening pair as neatly for purchasing us to fifty in the first six. We had a large number of positives with the bat and it's about replicating this recreation in and recreation out," Brathwaite mentioned.

Brathwaite mentioned West Indies will have to take lessons from the just-concluded series to the forthcoming tour of Bangladesh.

"We wish to take what we now have learnt from this series to this point and work on it, and are available back to Bangladesh considering that is the fourth recreation of the series versus the starting of some other series," he mentioned.

"We had back-to-back video games, we didn't get started as well as we would have liked and by the point we were given into the tour we had misplaced the series. So if we will get this efficiency into Bangladesh's first recreation of the series, then we will look to come out on top there."

The Windies captain was not pleased with certainly one of his deliveries in the 18th over being known as a large however mentioned it could not be fair responsible the decision for the defeat in a recreation that went all the way down to the twine.

"I am hoping that the rest I say now, I may not be fined for. If I am getting immunity, I can resolution honestly. But, it's all the way down to interpretation," Brathwaite mentioned.

"In my opinion, Rishabh stepped away and stepped across, and if he was staying in his stance it could've hit his boots. And then he jumped inside of his stance, so personally it wasn't a large as a result of that."

"But you'll be able to't look back at it. If one of the most fours would've long past for one, then we would've won through three runs. So you'll be able to't look at each single ball and suppose 'this one choice, or that one choice price us the game'. Need to offer credit score to Shikhar (Dhawan) and Rishabh (Pant) who performed really well," he added.