00:00Yeah, well, touching on the last game, that was a bit disappointing for us.
00:05We knew going into it was going to be an extremely high-scoring game.
00:07We knew the wicket that we were playing on there in particular
00:10is normally very high-scoring, like 240-plus most games.
00:15We knew we got a score on the board, and then unfortunately
00:17our ability to not catch for a night, that just disappeared on us.
00:24And the injury to Lockie, obviously, that hurt us a fair bit.
00:30Yeah, we've only played a couple of games here,
00:34and we feel we're getting a pretty good handle on the conditions
00:37with a couple of practice matches and the last two games here.
00:41We're obviously going to have to change our team up a bit with Ferguson
00:44not being able to play.
00:47So we'll have a good look at the wicket tonight,
00:49and we'll see which way we're going to go there,
00:50whether we have to change up our spin attack a little bit
00:53or change our fast bowling attack, which we're going to have to do.
01:00How difficult it is for as a coach to start a confidence
01:04back and looking after the matches?
01:07And also, to add to that, you know,
01:10games have only won three matches out of three matches.
01:15It's fine.
01:16I think, like, this being my first year at the franchise,
01:22we're one-on-one here.
01:23We've had a game where we didn't bat the best,
01:27and we've had a game that we won, I think,
01:29pretty comfortably in the end against Chennai.
01:32To instill confidence in the boys, like, it's...
01:35In this tournament, like, you go to venues,
01:37and, like, we went to Hyderabad.
01:39We knew what we were going to get.
01:40We knew it was going to be a 250 game, like, both sides.
01:45And you play to that.
01:47You try not to let the guys go,
01:48oh, I went at 12 and over, I went at this.
01:49No, that's the venue you're playing on.
01:51And if you go up 10 and over, you're a genius.
01:53So, like, the confidence we take from that is
01:55someone like Ashti bowled unbelievably in the last game.
01:59I think he bowled four overs for 37.
02:01And on that venue, for the fast bowlers in that game,
02:05that was outstanding.
02:07So we got a lot of confidence with that.
02:09We're going to have to bring someone in for Lockie,
02:11so we're going to have to change our bowling attack slightly.
02:14The guys don't lack confidence.
02:16We're sitting at 3 and 2.
02:17We're in a good spot in the competition.
02:19where we've got a big week coming up
02:21against the same two opposition, KKR and RCB.
02:26That's just the way the draws work for us.
02:27We've got them for the next four games.
02:29So if we can have a good week,
02:31we're going to be well-placed going into the back half.
02:35Coach, KKR is very heavy-spent bowling attack.
02:38They have a pretty good bowling-plus winner.
02:41And we also have a music channel like that.
02:44Like a similar kind of attention bowling.
02:46So what do you think of the bowling points of the KKR and the arts?
02:52Is there any change?
02:54No, just that once again, you're starting to see all the different teams.
03:00They've got their little identity coming out now.
03:02And we know that with KKR, their bowling attack is spin-heavy.
03:06So how do we counter that?
03:07We have a lot of players in our middle order that are very good players to spin.
03:10So that becomes the match-up that we have to win tomorrow night.
03:15And with our bowling attack, we need to get Yeozy into the game more than we're doing.
03:20Like, he's just struggling to get into the game at the moment.
03:26Like against Chennai, just bowling the one over, a very good over at a very important time.
03:29He bowled a very good over.
03:30But it's just getting him into the tournament.
03:32We're five games in.
03:33And for us to win the IPL, we're going to need him.
03:36So we have a month and a half now to try and get him into the tournament proper.
03:43Hello, where does this come from?
03:44Over here.
03:45Yeah.
03:46Chennai have conceded in excess of 204 times over the time.
03:51Now, as a bowling coach, does your task become more challenging in order to deal with this kind of situation?
03:57So it's not often that you see 100 be conceded, but it's the long of the season.
04:02No, not really.
04:03I think we've played on one pitch that I would consider was in the favour of the bowlers.
04:09And that was in Lucknow.
04:13And we kept the team to 170 or 175.
04:16And then our batsmen went out and got it in 16 overs.
04:21So it's like, for us, you've got to go game to game, game to game.
04:25And at the moment, we're playing on buckets where 200, 220, 240 at SRH is a normal score.
04:31So don't look at the overall.
04:33Once we get to places that are a little bit more helpful for the bowlers, unfortunately, that may not happen in the next week.
04:39But we might get to Dharmashal or we might get to Chennai where we're going to have a little bit more help for the bowlers.
04:45And, yeah, we'll see those scores come down.
04:48But, yes, we've conceded four 200-plus scores, but we are sitting three and two.
04:54So all we've got to do is concede less than the other team.
04:57Ferguson's out indefinitely, I would have thought.
05:12And us getting him back by the end of the tournament is a very low percentage, I would have thought.
05:19I think he's done a real decent injury to himself.
05:21Yeah, it's not just the last match that I'm a little bit concerned about.
05:32Like, I think we've dropped 12 catches for the tournament now.
05:37Yeah, but that's fine.
05:39We dropped catches there, but we've also dropped 12 for the tournament, which is a bit more of a concern on our front.
05:44But if we take care of our catches, I could be sitting here with, like, us having a 4-1 record.
05:51But we can't do anything other than keep the boys working on it, keep the boys trying to be better in the field.
05:58And they try.
06:00And drop catches, like, happen, and they're happening a bit to us in the last few games.
06:04If that turns a little bit and our boys start holding on to them, start getting a couple of half chances,
06:10well, hopefully we're on the right side of the ledger going forward.
06:12Last few questions.
06:14None of the ballers have gone below 9.
06:18Talk about Ashish.
06:20Jahal has gone 11.13.
06:23He has scored in 5 games.
06:25Only to show 2 games.
06:28So...
06:28Are you concerned?
06:29Yeah, yeah.
06:30Of course it's a concern.
06:31But once again, we tend not to look at, like, he's going at 9.5.
06:36He's going at 10 because we're playing games where 200 is a score or 220 is a score or 240 is a score.
06:43If we keep playing games where 230 is a score and our guys keep going at 10 and over, well, we're going to win most games.
06:49So that's how we tend to look at it.
06:51And I think I answered in the question before, we need to get Yuzi into the tournament a little bit.
06:56Like, he's being used in a lot of different roles at a lot of different times at the moment.
07:01And we're very pace-heavy at the moment.
07:03I think we need to find a way to get more spin into our bowling attack.
07:08And, like, hopefully we see that over the next few games.
07:10Last question.
07:40Like, I'm not going to sit here and say, oh, we're going to go five matches now conceding less than 200.
07:45Because if we're playing on the pitches where we might go to Bangalore and that's a 230 wicket, that's got the potential to be that there.
07:51And, like, all we've got to do is keep a team 200.
07:54So, like, I'm not going to sit here and say, we've got to be under 200, we've got to be under 200.
07:57Like, no, we have to actually just bowl to the conditions that are going to win us the game on that day.
08:04In the last game, we didn't quite do that.
08:07And you couple that with drop catches and an injury, and that results in the loss.
08:11Last question.
08:13Coach, I just want to ask about it.
08:14I should be, like, he's a quality bowler.
08:17He's a world-class bowler.
08:19So how do you work with him?
08:21Like, what kind of strategies have you guys done?
08:24And at least what do you think you're working on?
08:26Well, for starters, I'm really enjoying it.
08:29I really like working with him, and you're correct.
08:31He is a world-class bowler.
08:32And I think if you look at his numbers across this tournament, what he's done in games, like, the way, like, his economy rate in the power play, I think, is in the eights.
08:41His economy rate at the death, he's keeping in check in comparison to what the game requires.
08:47The only thing that's missing from Arsh at the moment is, like, the bag full of wickets that he can sometimes get.
08:52And I actually can't sit here and say he's not creating chances either.
08:56I think last game against Chennai here, he had two pretty basic catches dropped off his bowling.
09:01So if those things start going, like, his way, you're going to see the wickets start keeping up.
09:05And, like, he is a very, very good flat wicket bowler, which is what we need right now.
09:11And I'm excited for the day where he gets something with just a little bit of seam movement in it.
09:15We saw it in Lucknow.
09:16We saw the damage that he can do up top.
09:19Just get a couple more wickets like that for him, it'd be nice.
09:22Thank you, guys.
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