Oman's Pratik Athavale reacts to their T20 World Cup loss to Scotland

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Oman's Pratik Athavale reacts to their T20 World Cup loss to Scotland. Scotland chased down Oman's total of 150 for 7, with 7 wickets and 41 balls to spare Sir Viv Richards Stadium, Antigua, West Indies

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00:00 You had a terrific knock today but work went wrong actually today for Oman

00:06 Actually

00:09 We were batting well earlier, we had the game in our hands

00:12 But we couldn't have a good partnership, we had planned to have a partnership in between

00:16 But we couldn't do it, we were losing wickets early, so we were able to target up to 150

00:24 What was the feeling of the 150 target on this pitch, will you be able to compete or the way Scotland easily crossed 150

00:33 When you came to the dressing room at half time, what was the feeling of this wicket, will you be able to stop Scotland at 150?

00:43 Actually the plan was that if we can take 2-3 wickets in power play, it would be good for the team

00:50 Because the score was very low on 150 wicket, we should have played up to 170-180

00:56 But we couldn't do it, if we could have taken 3 wickets in power play, we could have restricted them

01:04 But McMullan and Munsi did a very good batting on that wicket, so they took the game from us

01:09 Do you think the breeze that was going on, the crosswind that was more in the second half

01:16 Did that make it easier for them to play, to target short boundaries, or do you feel that you were more careful being the wicket keeper?

01:25 Actually they played the shots with the wind and they were successful in executing them, so that was a plus point for them

01:34 Do you think we should have bowled on the toss earlier?

01:40 As a player I don't think we should have bowled or batted, but if we could have batted and done a partnership

01:48 Like I said earlier, if we didn't lose the wicket, we could have done a good total, because the wicket was good, nothing like that was happening

01:53 Do you think that the bowling in the first two matches of Oman was very good?

01:59 We defended 109 and even got Australia to 14 overs, what happened today that you couldn't click the bowling so well?

02:09 I won't say that the bowling wasn't good, but actually they did a good batting on that wicket

02:14 And if we could have caught those catches, we could have taken them closer to the game, anything could have happened in the future

02:21 Your last game is against England, and England have to win that match if they want to move forward

02:29 And that too with a good net run rate, because today Scotland's net run rate has gone up even more

02:33 So what is your intention for the final game?

02:39 Nothing much, we will go with a positive intent, because we haven't won a single match in the tournament

02:43 So we will try to do our best, because as a team we are doing well, so we will try to execute that plan

02:52 Thank you Prateek, and very well played today

02:54 Thank you, thank you so much

02:55 Thank you.

02:57 (audience laughing)

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