Moore calls for application

Marlon Samuels claims the wicket of Ant Botha for six

West Indies coach David Moore blamed a failure to apply "basic cricket knowledge" by his batsmen as the tourists suffered a humiliating 51-run defeat at the hands of Derbyshire in a Twenty20 encounter at the County Ground.

Moore's side were routed for just 84 in 15.4 overs in pursuit of a modest 136 target with paceman Tom Lungley (4-11) and spinner Anthony Botha (4-14) their chief destroyers.

It was not the kind of preparation Moore and his players were looking for ahead of the two Twenty20 internationals with England at The Brit Oval on Thursday and Friday against a county who had won only one of their previous 11 games.

They have only one more game - against the PCA Masters at Arundel on Tuesday evening - to try to find some form in a format of the competition in which they have played only one international against New Zealand 16 months ago.

Moore said: "We haven't played enough of this type of cricket, particularly at international level. This is only our second Twenty20 game so they are still coming to grips with it.

David Moore wants more consistency from West Indies

"But there is also such a thing as basic cricket knowledge and understanding and they should have applied that this afternoon. We have another game on Tuesday and an opportunity to remedy some of the situations we put ourselves in this afternoon.

"It is not about learning new skills. It is about applying your knowledge. We missed a lot of opportunities for singles. There were too many attempted big hits rather than working the ball around.

"We were trying to make too many things happen off reasonable deliveries and played too many poor shots."

Moore, however, insisted that morale had not taken a battering despite this latest woeful showing following on from the mauling in the Test series against England.

He said: "They are going okay. We beat England Lions quite soundly the other day in a one-day game and we batted quite well in that game.

"But consistency is the thing I have been talking about since the start of the tour a couple of months ago and it is that which lets us down.

"There are a few things that need to happen but consistency is one of those.

"The damage is not irreparable. We have got opportunities and we know what we've got to do. It was pretty straightforward. There were just not enough scoring shots per over in that whole innings.

"We need to apply ourselves more to the task."