IND vs SA: India bowling coach Morne Morkel has called on India to reset after their Test series loss against Souh Africa, stressing the need to rebuild momentum and play good cricket in their upcoming ODI series. He emphasised that good cricket would be key against a confident South African team.
00:00Coach, how challenging is it for all the players and the coaching staff who turned off for three days for an ODI series after Saturday was getting the series gone?
00:13Mentally, how tough it is for all the players and the coaching staff?
00:17Obviously, it was a disappointing two weeks for us, but we had a couple of days now to reflect and I think the important thing now is to give all our energy into the white ball team.
00:31We've been playing a lot of good white ball cricket.
00:34A couple of new faces, not new faces, but fresh energy into the squad now with Virat and Rohit and them coming back.
00:42We are excited for the next couple of weeks now with playing white ball cricket.
00:48Coach, of course we are now building up for the T20 World Cup.
00:52That is a really, really exciting event right now.
00:55In the middle of it, at a 50-over series, how are you going to do it?
01:00Do you want to use this as preparation for the T20 World Cup?
01:03Or are you considering it?
01:06Look, I mean, preparations for the T20 World Cup is one thing, but I think for me the focus is every time you put your Indian jersey on, you are representing the country.
01:16And you are representing a lot of people.
01:19The fans standing outside the gate, you know, supporting us and waving us and cheering us on.
01:26So for me, preparation is one thing, but for me it is playing good cricket for all the cricket lovers there and the cricket supporters.
01:33So, you know, I think that would be the focus is to bring a bit of momentum back into the Indian dressing room after the disappointing two weeks.
01:44And by that, it is to put all other thoughts aside and just play good solid white ball cricket starting in today's time.
02:03Look, my department is the bowling. I'm not really, well I don't get involved in the selection and stuff like that.
02:09Leave that up to Gautam and the selectors and the captain. So, yeah, I can't comment on that.
02:16What do you mean the saying last three days at Dharna and the weather is very moisture, the weather is very moisture,
02:23the weather is very moisture, the weather is very night or not?
02:31I think the numbers.
02:34Um, yeah, I think the main, the thing I noticed immediately yesterday when I stepped off the plane is it is much colder.
02:43colder so it's going to be interesting to see you know in the evenings with the
02:48temperatures what the ball is going to do are the wickets going to play luckily
02:51we're practicing under under lights tonight so for us that will give a nice
02:55sort of indication of what to expect
03:13I think we'll have to look at the wicket honestly just walk past it now and it
03:17looked like quite a very good surface almost like South African like yeah so I
03:23think the discussions will will happen tonight in terms of what combination they
03:27look to start off with so yeah just have to wait and see after training
03:33I think the the best is for the medical to to give that I spoke to a shootman
03:45two days ago just to check in with him and he's recovering well so that's just
03:50pleasing to hear she has also started easy rehab which is great so yeah we're
03:57looking forward to to welcome them back into the squad and the good thing is that
04:02they they're healthy and you know they're starting their preparation and
04:04their way back into the team
04:27look it's a it's a change of color by clothing and it's a change of
04:32ball which is it always brings a different energy but I feel you know the
04:37South African team they have that momentum with them and a confident pro to
04:41your team is a dangerous team so for us you know it will be important to to
04:46start well with us to play you know good cricket over the next week or two
04:51because they're here to to win and you know luckily we've got some good
04:56experience it's not it's not in a team and yeah for us it's now focus for the
05:02next two days give ourselves the best opportunity to prepare well and then go
05:08out there and put the last couple of weeks behind us and really focus on on
05:12playing solid cricket
05:12yeah for Ashdee, Parshit, Prasit you know all those guys it's a it's a great opportunity and you know we were we're always looking to
05:28to to to give these guys as much game time for them to pick up experience and they're going to play against a quality batting lineup you know I think Matthew Breitsky
05:33Breivis, Brijavis, Adam Markram how those guys play the whiteboard cricket as aggressive brand of cricket they are playing so it's going to be a good test to see how they handle the pressure how how they
05:57pressure how they you know play in their situations or the opportunities that
06:03they're going to be given you know how they handle those opportunities in those situations
06:08and and grow from there you know i think it's good for us to to to give our bowling unit
06:13some experience it's good for us to see how they can bowl to death in that middle face
06:18you know how we can take wickets because at the end of the day and white ball cricket you want
06:22you want to be taking wickets and strike bowlers that can do that so i'm excited for them to to
06:28get a good run this uh this the series and you know we'll have to to get them ready because it's
06:33going to be a tough one
06:47sure you know they they're quality players um as long as they they they're happy to
06:52you know put the hard work in and the fitness i've always believed in the experience and um
06:59you know to have that that experience you can't you don't find that anywhere you know they've won
07:03trophies they know how to play big tournaments so for sure you know if it's um if they mentally and
07:08physically feel that their bodies can do that i mean it's still a long way away you know the world
07:13cup uh by all means you know i've played many games against them so you know i've had sleepless nights
07:19bowling to them so i know what as a bowler what what goes through your preparation um playing against
07:25them so for me um yeah you know definitely definitely on board with that
07:39the main focus is to um play good cricket the main focus will for us is to just do the basics
07:46well in white ball cricket it's a quick turnaround from from from from the red ball to the white
07:51ball we've got two days of preparation so yeah i'll be focusing on on on really identifying
07:58what is going to be key at this venue uh and then for us to to be able to execute that
08:04i don't know yet uh i've been told just now when i walk past that uh it's a different kind of
08:16soil so uh at this moment i can't give you that in that answer
08:27so what is the first part
08:36like i said we we'll have to they i'm pretty sure they'll discuss the combinations
08:40um but it's great to have him here he's been a quality player for a number of years and you know
08:46if he gets his opportunity i'm pretty sure he'll do the country very proud
08:59yeah the pitch like i said it's it's a different laid surface under as my understanding speaking to
09:04the curator um not quite sure what to what to expect at the moment as we only arrived uh um yesterday
09:12afternoon so i think after after tonight we'll have a better understanding of you know what the climate
09:18is going to do and how the surface is going to play
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