We have to reduce number of boundaries we concede: Jos Buttler

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England captain Jos Buttler felt that his team did a good job overall against Australia. Buttler, however, felt that England could have given away less number of boundaries in the second innings.

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00:00Hi Joss, a bit of a good punch that one, just your initial reactions to it really?

00:09Just your initial reactions to it to be honest?

00:11Yeah, really good game of cricket. To put 3.50 on the board I thought was a great effort.

00:18Ben Duckett played absolutely outstanding innings, really pleased for him but credit

00:26to Australia that was a fantastic chase and Josh Inglis played brilliant innings to see

00:32them home.

00:33Did you think you had enough on the board at half-time or do you think you were about

00:3720-30 short?

00:38No, I thought we had a really good score. The way the wicket played there in the day

00:42time, a little bit of in different bounds or the ball wasn't quite coming on so well

00:49but there was always a little bit maybe on if the dew came in and how much it came in

00:54so it did start to skid on a bit more in the second half but that being said they were

01:00going to have to play really well to score 3.50 but they managed to.

01:03When you're on a bit of a losing where is it harder and harder to recapture that winning

01:08feeling at all?

01:09I think the longer it goes on hopefully the closer you get to winning and the optimism

01:15and the belief is very much there in the team. Sometimes you put in a really good performance

01:21but the opposition are desperate to win and can play well too so I think we have to be

01:27proud of the way we played today and the way we performed but give credit to the opposition

01:32for just being a little bit better and getting over the line.

01:35It leaves the equation pretty simple really now doesn't it? Win your last two games and

01:39hope that's enough to get in the semi-final.

01:41Yeah absolutely, that's the way this competition is set up and every game is a must win.

01:51It can be said that it's hard making a lot of scores in this ground and after that score

02:03losing a match so you're asking that you're optimistic in the future so Champions Trophy

02:09is a very tough tournament, losing one game you're losing the tournament so what would

02:14be your focus on your bowling because in batting you're scoring enough runs but in bowling

02:21you're not able to defend them so what would be your focus in upcoming matches? Bowling

02:27and if bowling so you will increase in the fast bowling sense are the spinners.

02:41That would be in the spin sense of the fast pacers.

02:46Yeah I think you're always trying to reflect on the games and areas that you can improve

02:52and those kind of things. I thought there were a few phases in the game where we bowled

02:56really nicely in partnerships and we starved them of the boundaries and that created chances.

03:01A couple of times I was just trying to find a way of reducing that boundary in the over

03:07and any time the pressure came they managed to play a really good shot or get away so

03:13I think that's always the focus for me as a captain and this is a bowling unit just

03:19ways that we can restrict that extra boundary in the over to keep pushing the scoreboard

03:26pressure up there.

03:27Where do you think you lose the match? Is it because of the middle partnership between

03:35Inglis and Carey or do you think that the missed chance caused you the game?

03:42No I thought they put together a really good partnership. As I just said we built some

03:47nice pressure to get a couple of wickets together in Labuschagne and Short and then Carey and

03:54Inglis coming together they played well they put together a good partnership. We have credit

04:01to them we just needed to try and find a way to eke out that wicket there and get them

04:06five down with a few more still on the board.

04:09Hi Josh, apologies I missed the start so if you've already answered the question I've

04:14been ducking it. Sorry about that but I guess as an innings we can't really talk too much

04:19about because he was brilliant tonight. What kind of a market does that set for him this

04:24year across all formats because it's kind of an innings that I guess England fans can

04:30look to and take solace from despite the defeat?

04:32Yeah absolutely. I'm sure there won't be too many times he scores 160 and ends up on the

04:38losing side. I think he's played fantastically well. I think he's been in great form for

04:45England across all the formats for the last few years and obviously getting his chance

04:51at the top of the order in the ODIs. I think his game is just perfectly suited to scoring

04:56big, big runs. Asked before the tournament I said I think he could be the first Englishman

05:02to score a double hundred in ODI cricket and I think an innings like today just really

05:08should really prove to him how consistent he can be and how big a run he can score in

05:15this format. Obviously it's a big year for English cricket and he's going to be at the

05:20forefront of it so to start as he has done here and looking ahead I'm sure England fans

05:26will be excited to watch him back for the rest of the year.

05:29Matt and then a bit more on the circuit.

05:31Josh did you feel short of bowling options in that innings? Obviously Jacob Beck will

05:36get injured, hasn't helped the balance of your team but you only really had the five

05:40or six bowling options.

05:42No I didn't feel short at all. No, like the balance of the team that we went with. I thought

05:48Root and Livingstone bowled really well, built some nice pressure there together. I just

05:55think you've got to sometimes credit the opposition. I thought Josh Inglis played a fantastic innings.

06:02Josh, in this kind of tournament losing one match can mean a lot. I mean you've got the

06:09two matches left and you have to win those two matches to get back into the tournament.

06:13So what do you think, where were you lacking today and any specific plans for the next

06:17upcoming two matches? Because Afghanistan can play really good in these kind of conditions,

06:20they have good spinners. So any specific plans for upcoming two matches?

06:25No, we just sort of let the dust settle on today I think and then we'll reflect on the

06:31performance. I think as a whole the performance was very good. We've been wanting to, as a

06:38batting unit, build some big partnerships. Obviously Root and Duckett did that today

06:43which allowed us the platform to score 350. And yeah, obviously like you say, the way

06:49that this competition is, it's must win games. So we'll plan well, we'll keep the boys upbeat

06:55and lots of optimism and the belief there within the group and dust ourselves down and go again.

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