00:00The scoreboard pressure, what happened?
00:04I think at half time we felt that 200 was definitely gettable.
00:08I think we've seen over the last couple of years here at Eden Gardens that's
00:12sort of around about a par score, maybe 10 more than a par score.
00:17Probably in hindsight, that back end of our bowling innings
00:22they scored pretty freely. I think they scored 60 odd in that last four overs.
00:27But certainly at half time we certainly felt we were in the game.
00:31I think unfortunately just in that power play we obviously lost three wickets
00:35in the first three overs.
00:39I guess that's the style of players that we have up the top. They're aggressive.
00:43They've been lauded for a year and a bit
00:47and rightfully so for the style of play that they've played. In just the last couple of games it hasn't
00:51quite worked but we've got no doubts that our top order
00:55our batters will come good and we've got every faith and trust in them
00:59coming into this next game that we play against Gujarat on Sunday.
01:03It's just one of those days where it hasn't quite gone according to plan.
01:07There's obviously some frustration within the group
01:11but we're still very early days in this IPL and
01:15we've got a lot of quality players within our group that can certainly turn it around.
01:19Just a frustrating day.
01:23Can you give us a quick update on the pitching?
01:27We've obviously
01:31been here a couple of days and we've been observing how the pitch has
01:35been prepared over the last couple of days.
01:39History suggests that the last couple of years bowling first is the way to go
01:43here. There might have been a little bit of grip there the second half of the innings
01:47for the spinners for KKR but again they're world class
01:51operators and their ability to come through in the middle
01:55of the innings after our power play, after we'd lost Wickets
01:59they probably felt that they could control
02:03certainly the way that they wanted to bowl.
02:07Again it's just a frustrating aspect of today's game is that through that power play
02:11we lost Wickets, we weren't able to really put pressure on their spinners and
02:15they were able to go to work the quality spinners that they are.
02:19As I said at half time at that 200 score we certainly felt like we could have
02:23chased it down, we just obviously didn't get the start we wanted and we were always behind the 8 ball
02:27so to speak throughout our batting innings.
02:31Barring the issue of dismissals
02:35could you possibly concede that
02:39maybe the bowlers this time actually out-skilled the openers of SLH?
02:43I mean it wasn't just aggressive batting responsibilities
02:47The bowlers probably out-skilled the openers because it happened for three games
02:51in a row against KKR especially.
02:55Any thoughts on that?
02:59We could pick the bones out of every dismissal
03:03if you really wanted to and you're right in saying that the last few outings KKR
03:07have certainly taught us a lesson if we go back through last IPL
03:11as well. Again you don't want to
03:15take away from the natural intent of our top order and the way that they
03:19bat because as you've witnessed
03:23quite a lot over the last year it's breathtaking
03:27when it's going well and just the last couple of games it hasn't
03:31quite worked. They see the ball, they hit the ball, they know their own
03:35game plans and the way that they want to bat and
03:39it's probably a combination of things not quite working for them at the moment
03:43and maybe a little bit of that skill that you say
03:47with the way that KKR opening bowlers bowled tonight
03:51they took the pace off a little bit straight from the get-go.
03:55Maybe a perfect storm between those two combinations but
03:59I think you'll see as we go through this that our batting group will
04:03certainly fire and put some bowling attacks under some real pressure.
04:07One more follow-up. I think we're all looking forward to a different question on the batting
04:11Is that, will this change based on
04:15the performance in the last three games or do you still think
04:19this is the way to go? If it's three times it's wrong, four to five times
04:23it's fine. What are your thoughts on that?
04:27I go back to the first game. I think everyone was very much
04:31of the opinion that we're just taking off from where we left last year
04:35in the style that we batted so yes whilst it probably
04:39hasn't worked probably the last two games because even in the second game we got close to 200
04:43that can just sometimes be the nature of the game that we play
04:47and the way that particularly our batters want to play the game
04:51and we want them to play the game so yes whilst it hasn't been
04:55our best stuff these last two games as I said we've got
04:59every confidence within our group and within the individuals within our group to go out
05:03and play that attacking brand that I think we know
05:07and we've shown from an SRH point of view over this last year also
05:11Hi James, how do you assess
05:15the bowler's performance in the game over this past year?
05:19Was there an issue with the assessment or the
05:23attribution of a lot of stuff from previous games?
05:31Yeah again it's probably just a slight combination of
05:35both those parts you question the assessment and the
05:39execution I mean 65 I think off that last four
05:43overs probably reflects that we didn't get it quite right
05:47halfway stage I think KKR were 84 or 85
05:51for two and yeah I think
05:55if we got the back 10 overs right we probably could have
05:59held them to 170, 180 but yeah we didn't get it
06:03quite right the execution wasn't quite there and you know
06:07sometimes as a coach you sit there and think okay well
06:11could we have done things a little bit better could we have technically been a little bit braver
06:15with some aspects of it and those are conversations that
06:19we'll obviously have in the coming days before we go again on Sunday
06:23yeah it's reflections I guess between myself and the
06:27individuals that were out there and we'll obviously look to come back better with particularly that death execution
06:31but I think up until that point you know that first
06:35sort of three quarters of our bowling innings was pretty good stuff
06:51Again you could look at a lot of things
06:55and wish you could have time again that's the nature of the game, Kamendu came in
06:59and bowled a really good over, the match up was really good for
07:03Hind to come in and he obviously got a wicket as well
07:07yeah I mean I think it's more to do with
07:11the fact that maybe those last few overs just got away a little bit on us
07:15again through maybe a little bit of assessment a little bit of execution and those
07:19that's probably more what we need to reflect on rather whether or not
07:23tactically it was the right decision to not bowl Kamendu and then there's another over
07:29James, is Shabby bowling in corporate law, is he still
07:33in the process of getting into the book because we all know he has come back from a long
07:37injury lay-off and it might take some time
07:41yeah I think today was probably his strongest
07:45performance for us with the ball since he's come in
07:49and let's not forget that he also missed IPL last year and I think that
07:53whole sort of change in the batting tempo that we've seen in IPL
07:57so him and I and him within the bowling group
08:01are having some really good conversations around the ability
08:05to adapt, we know what a world class bowler he is and certainly
08:09with the new ball he's always going to create
08:13half opportunities or opportunities and we saw that
08:17today with the ball so yeah it's just a process
08:21of looking at how we can get better as a bowling group, how individuals can keep
08:25progressing and getting better and Shammy is a very
08:29experienced campaigner, world class campaigner so today
08:33was I thought a strong performance for him and I'm sure he'll get better and better
08:37as we go through the IPL
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