00:00What went wrong in the game?
00:03I think if you analyse the game, it's probably the two power plays. Our power play with the
00:10ball went for the best part of 80 runs and we were only able to manage mid-40s or early
00:1640s. So I think that's on the scoreboard the big difference and we were also sloppy
00:24in the field compared to Rojasthan who were outstanding. So those would be the two immediate
00:30take-aways from the game.
00:32Since 2019 you haven't chased 180 plus goals, so has that been a problem?
00:46We've just got to keep working hard. I did see that stat. We won a final that was revised
00:51which was close, but apart from that it has been a little bit of slim pickings. Each year
00:58is different and this group we are learning. It is quite a different group to what we've
01:04had in the past. So we're learning one about the combinations of the team and then getting
01:10to know the players as well, what they can and can't do.
01:14The start of a three-year cycle is always a little bit difficult, especially if you're
01:17just short of a little bit of form. We are pushing hard to try and find that form, but
01:22we're making mistakes doing it. Not far away, just as much as I pointed out the first six
01:27overs where we bowled weren't great, I thought the next 14 were outstanding. You can see
01:31the potential that's there and a little bit better with the bat, but still some work to
01:35go, no doubt about it.
01:37You are a long time lucky to also come to this field?
01:43Yeah, he got some good wickets. On another day, it might have been an opportunity for
01:49us. I think Parag's catch was the turning point in the match. The Dube match-up was
01:56going our way, but he had courage, Mr Ring, you can't deny that. He certainly gave the
02:01ball air. Sometimes you give the ball air and in this competition you can go the distance,
02:05but he had the courage to do that. Guy Codd's wicket as well was very clever, so he held
02:11his nerve and had a good day.
02:13What's the turning point of the match? Is it Ruturaj's brilliant or Nitesh Rana's batting?
02:28Nitesh Rana played really well. I thought he combatted a bit of bounce and a bit of
02:33seam early to get them off to a great start. I mentioned to Parag's catch, Dube is a devastating
02:40player to spin and they were looking to bowl spins, so we thought we were in with a good
02:45opportunity to advance the game. So that catch was big and then classy bowling from Hasaranga
02:50to Ruturaj, so probably three pretty good moments.
02:53Many people want to say that MS Dhoni batted much later. What do you think?
03:08It's a time thing. MS judges it. His body, his knees aren't what they used to be. He's
03:27moving OK, but there's still an attrition aspect to it. He can't bat 10 overs running
03:32full stick, so he will gauge on the day what he can give us. If the game's in the balance
03:37like today, he will go a little bit earlier, and he backs other players when other opportunities
03:43are up. So he's balancing that. I said it last year, he's too valuable to us, leadership
03:48and wicket keeping, to throw him in at 9, 10 overs. He's actually never done that. So
03:54look, from around 13, 14 overs, he's looking to go, depending on who's in.
04:00Do you think there's mounting pressure on the team?
04:12No, there's pressure at full stop from ball one. It doesn't change. You look at the nature
04:19of the loss, I was a little bit grumpy in the last game, just with probably the way
04:24we read the wicket and the way we played this game. We were in the fight, which is, I'm
04:28okay with that. We can get a lot better, and that excites me, but I do get aware that
04:34time goes pretty quickly in this competition. We've won one out of three, it's not all bad.
04:40The competition's about that. Everyone's beating each other, although a couple of teams are
04:44up the top. But the way we respond, the resilience to a loss like this is always very important.
04:50And going back home, I just hope we can get a wicket that we can understand and play well
04:55on with the weapons that we've got. But it's not all bad, we did some good things, but
04:59we just need to tidy up a few others.
05:00Do you think this wicket played like a chip-off wicket, or do you think it's better than the previous?
05:08I haven't really thought about it, to be honest. Each one that I look at is a mystery to me.
05:14You're trying to weigh up whether it's due, how sticky it feels, how much water's been
05:19put in it. Is it going to get tougher later on? The trend is usually to bowl first, but
05:26we've seen a couple of pitchers play harder. We felt the one in Chippewa was harder the
05:30other day, which is unusual. So it's just a case of assessing and sometimes maybe losing
05:36the toss. But it's one of the big parts of the IPL to get it right, so we've just got
05:40to make sure we can guesstimate it right or get it as close as possible.
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