"Not Ideal": England White-Ball Coach Matthew Mott After Loss Against West Indies In ODI Series

England head coach Matthew Mott has urged fans to be patient with England's new-look white-ball team, considering it is work in progress and stressing that they have had only three opportunities together to play as a group. A new-look, revamped England side succumbed to a four-wicket defeat to West Indies in the third and final ODI to lose the series 2-1 after a miserable ICC Cricket World Cup campaign, which saw the then-defending champions win only three matches out of nine and finish at seventh place.

A group of fresh talent, like Phil Salt, Will Jacks, Harry Brook, Ben Duckett, Zak Crawley, Gus Atkinson and Rehan Ahmed played under the leadership of skipper Jos Buttler, with only four players having played 10-plus ODIs.

They were facing the West Indies, who are also undergoing transition after not qualifying for the 50-over WC for the first time ever this year.

However, Shai Hope, Romario Shepherd, Alick Athanaze, Sherfane Rutherford and Matthew Forde produced some fine performances throughout the series to win the trophy, despite England being in strong positions for a good part of it.

Mott said that the group has not put a complete game together and it is frustrating. But despite all the troubles, there were some good signs and players loved playing with each other.

"We have not put a complete game together and that's the frustration," Mott, England's head coach, said as quoted by ESPNCricinfo.

"We put ourselves in a chance to win all three games and come away with a series loss, so that is not ideal."

"But there are definitely some really good signs there that there is a group of players who love playing with each other. They are some really good mates in there and I think it will really take the game forward,"