LAHORE, Pakistan (CMC) — With West Indies Women’s chances of qualifying for the 2025 Women’s World Cup hanging by a thread, Head Coach Shane Deitz has admitted that the regional side has been a disappointment at the tournament so far.

West Indies Women fell to their second defeat in three matches at the World Cup Qualifiers on Monday, when they went down to Pakistan Women by 65 runs.

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The result followed their opening-round loss to Scotland, and a tense six-run victory over Ireland.

It left them on just two points with only two matches remaining, needing a miracle to finish as one of the top two teams to book an automatic qualification spot to the World Cup, scheduled to begin in India in September.

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Speaking to the media following the defeat Deitz said the results thus far had been very disappointing.

“Obviously, now we have to recover,” he said. “We have two big games to come, train well in a couple days, and come out fighting hard in our last two games. Anything can happen; cricket is a funny game.

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“We’re just going to focus on finishing well, and playing some really good cricket, and giving our fans something to cheer about because obviously we’ve let them down, we’ve let ourselves down, and let all of our fans in the Caribbean down — which is real disappointing.”

West Indies Women sit fourth in the six-team standings, behind unbeaten Pakistan on six points and Bangladesh and Scotland on four points each.

While Deitz acknowledged that the regional side would need some luck to qualify, he said they had not yet given up hope.

He said their main focus is now on winning their final two games against Bangladesh and Thailand.

“We’re going to fight back, and the only way to do it is to train hard, get together, and stick together as a team and come out fighting these last two games,” he said.

“Hopefully a few things go our way — a miracle can happen — but all we can do is play well these last few games, and finish this tournament well, and then regroup and see where we go from there.”