00:02I just wanted to know Aksar Patel being the vice-captain, normally we see captains and
00:07vice-captains are an indispensable part of playing XI. Aksar's matchups against left-handers
00:13has been pretty good if we look at the bilaterals. So what was the logic of not having Aksar today
00:19and having Washington Sundar? If you could just give us a sense. Yeah, we spent so much
00:26time deliberating about the XI the last couple of days and I guess the only way
00:33that it sort of didn't play into our hands is if we did have the ideal start
00:36like we did today with getting Quinton and Rickleton out so early. You know, we were
00:40kind of looking at matchups more in the middle and then obviously someone has to
00:44give way. So, you know, do we leave a batter out and get another bowler in? In
00:49hindsight that looks like the right decision. Obviously playing it forward and
00:53making decisions at the time we felt we needed Rinku, you know, as an 8th batsman
00:58so to speak and the decision was based around there but certainly it's not to
01:03take anything away from Aksar and his leadership and how important he is to the
01:07team but like we face almost every week to try squeeze 11 places into 15 we're
01:14finding tricky and you know we need to make sure we get that spot on for the next
01:19two Super 8 games. Ryan, quite a bruising loss this to India wasn't not many expected
01:27this where does it leave your team now going forward? Very disappointed in the
01:33performance which you know when you set up or set out to win a World Cup you know
01:40don't expect someone to come deliver the World Cup to you on halfway through the
01:43competition so we understand we've made a lot of mistakes tonight, we understand
01:48you probably allowed one mess up in this phase of the competition and we've messed
01:54up on a grand scale and now the onus is on this group of guys to turn around and
01:59put in two solid performances against Zimbabwe and West Indies. Obviously with
02:05the way the group goes you need at least four points to get through now and it's
02:10going to need two big performances and a big bounce back from everyone involved.
02:14Tendo, Washi plays for the local IPL franchisee and he was not a regular for his team, actually
02:22he did not even play one third of the or he played only one third of the IPL games for
02:28Gujarat Titans. In that context how do you analyze the Washington selection or do you
02:34you won't consider IPL performance?
02:41I don't think that's necessarily relevant, you've got to look up the makeup of his IPL team.
02:46You know we also we know what Washi has done while he's been with the Indian team and we
02:52judge him on that and you know a big part of the strategy today was how Wally bowled in
02:56in the T20 when he bowled in the power play and that was obviously a big part of the strategy
03:00today going with three out and out bowlers plus Washi and you know two guys making up
03:06the fifth bowler winning that power play was going to be super important and we we more
03:12envisaged him bowling two overs in the power play not knowing that they were going to be
03:1530 for three and then obviously gives you the luxury of slotting somewhere in the order
03:20with the bat as well so on balance that was the decision and given the fact that we thought
03:24the majority of the threat was going to come from the left handers and like I said we wanted to
03:29play the extra
03:30battle so it left us with one choice between Washington and AXA and today we chose to go with Washi.
03:36Nintendo hi, just you know when this team was being put to defend the World Cup there's obviously a lot
03:42of emphasis on left-handers
03:43a lot of emphasis on left-handers up top. Today three left-handers all of them
03:48dismissed in the power play against South Africa opening with an off spinner. Will this team management
03:55and leadership group have a talk about bringing back somebody like a Sanju Samson just to break that
04:00top?
04:02Yeah of course we have and look in the five outings we've had now four teams have opened with
04:08part-time offspin and it's got a wicked every time apart from the USA game where we lost Abby without
04:14score in any case so you know to start every innings zero for one I think it's literally been zero
04:19or a
04:20couple of runs for one every time is obviously putting pressure on the link players uh you know
04:24Tillich and Sky we their role is to link up with the guys at the back end and it hasn't
04:29gone that way
04:30and look there's a lot of inexperience in the team um and you want a settled team you know these
04:37guys have
04:37done all before they're all fantastic players um so you know do you stick with twist do you stick with
04:43the
04:44guys who we feel they've performed really well over the last 18 months and who are maybe shy of a
04:49few
04:49runs now or do we twist and and bring Sanju is also a fantastic player and obviously helps with the
04:55tactically with having a right-hander at the top of the order and I'm sure that'll be a talking point
05:00over the next few days going into these two very important games. Ryan we didn't get to see much of
05:05Abhishek in the first four games first three matches that he batted but he did bad today and
05:10it looked like he was desperate for just the hacking at the ball and there's a problem there
05:14seems to be an obvious problem there and with Rinku who's also not doing much down the order so
05:19how much of a concern is that you don't have too many backup batting options specialist batting options
05:23in the side? It is a concern um you know the bulk of the runs are coming from the Surya
05:31has been
05:31obviously very good and obviously Shibam has been very good and like I say you've got four quality
05:35players there who haven't delivered so far in in this or up to this point in the competition.
05:41I certainly won't make excuses for Abi or Tillich they they don't need excuses made for them but
05:46I think Abi's preparation coming into the World Cup with the food poisoning that he had at one stage
05:52has obviously hampered his progress in terms of where we want him to be at this play at this phase
05:56you
05:56want him to be up and running and sort of confident in his swing and confident in his game plan
06:00and
06:00uh you know when you score three zeros that is going to start weighing on you I saw some really
06:07good signs on Friday night in the net I think I mentioned in the in the presser then um but
06:13he
06:13looks a little bit short and you know our our job as the coaching staff is to to pull that
06:18right we've got
06:19four days to do that uh Rinku you know I think that number seven eight position has become incredibly tough
06:26in in T20 cricket you know you look where he walked in against the Mubia he's had to turn down
06:31the
06:32single three or four times so yes it looks like he scored two of eight balls whatever and then he
06:36comes in in a pretty hopeless situation again tonight and he's he's opted to go for the boundary and try
06:41get us as close as we can and on the wicket that holds a little bit um you know that
06:46can happen so he
06:47hasn't had the best opportunities um but that is the nature of the position as well and we're at the
06:52phase
06:53now where it's only performances that are going to talk there's there's no point talking about
06:57rhythm in nets or you know how guys are feeling or what they're not feeling um it's time to pull
07:03our sleeves up and and get performance out of all the players and like I just said there that's the
07:07challenge for for the staff along with the players now to regroup and uh putting a big effort leading
07:12up to the next game against Zimbabwe all right just an extension of this akshar that the washington
07:18thing how difficult is it to leave out a vice captain you left out shubhangil obviously you
07:24took a hard call here you're telling your vice captains you're not good enough tactically or
07:29technically to play in big games especially when akshar has done well against this team in a world cup
07:36final batting at number five and telling him that washington sundar who has not been established as a
07:42t20 batter can do a better job at five how big a call was that i don't think it's as
07:49straightforward as
07:50that um you know like i alluded to earlier in our analysis we thought the biggest threat was going to
07:56come from quinton and ryan rickelton and david miller and when you can only choose one of the two
08:02we thought someone who can bowl in the power play like i mentioned all akshar obviously occasionally
08:08bowls in the power play but we we feel we've got washi to a point where he's uh found a
08:13way of
08:13being effective in the power plan he obviously didn't bowl in the power play tonight so you know
08:18it looks like uh we've purely gone on who's going to ball through the middle in which case you you
08:22would choose akshar but the strategy was around that and i think in a tournament like this you want
08:28or you expect all players to understand that with the best intentions we're trying to pick the best
08:3311 to to win the game and i hope axa takes in the same spirit as well yeah again i
08:40think if either
08:41of them had played it it would have been the same role if we a couple down we've tended to
08:44use those
08:44guys as a sort of stand operating procedure where you try extend the link before you get to hardeck
08:50and shivam and if if axa played in that team today uh he would have walked in in the same
08:56position
08:56at whatever we were 20 for three right when team india gets back to the drawing board what are the
09:02three
09:02areas three big areas that you will look into right now why does it have to be three
09:13look i've i've sort of banged the drummer about it um but i think the biggest challenge to us is
09:22finding a way to play on wickets that are not typical to what we're playing on and again tonight
09:27um you know to have that strangle on south africa 30 for three whatever they were and then to sort
09:34of adopt a defensive bowling strategy again i thought that was a missed trick where you again
09:39you sum up the conditions and you say look if you bang length on this pitch it's pretty hard to
09:43score
09:44and same with the bat there was obviously a bit of hold in the wickets and you know when you
09:48lose
09:50ishan in the first over and you've got three quality seamers like they do
09:54um i think again it needs a little bit of assessment application and it's a fine line
09:59between you know putting the reins and stopping guys from playing the way they play um but i think
10:05it's come to the point now where you know the intervention of saying guys there's different
10:10ways to go about a chase so even setting a score uh and like i say we've spoken about it
10:14a lot but um
10:15we haven't implemented it across the board and i think that's cost us uh in some of the performances
10:20with the bats so far um how's it ryan you you touched a little bit on um you know the
10:25the batting
10:26approach but it's not often we see an indian side that kind of so tied down by a bowling attack
10:30and
10:31south africa have played here a lot so they kind of know what to do but they haven't played on
10:34a
10:35black soil pitch yet what did you think their bowlers did that made it so difficult to score
10:40yeah i think they just held length really well um you know certainly not to single anyone out but
10:46the the first boundary we conceded was to rickleton you know was banged into the pitch
10:50at his right shoulder and that looked like an easy scoring shot and the second boundary was a full
10:55toss and in between there there wasn't much which was an indication that if you held the pitch we felt
10:59it was a little bit skiddy and a little bit stoppy a little bit too paced for the seamers and
11:03i thought
11:03south africa did that very well obviously lungi is the point of difference there with the slower
11:07balls really full again we we've spent so much time this week on sort of planning for that and you
11:12know
11:12credit to him despite all the planning and the game plans around that he's certainly very deceptive
11:17and very difficult to execute against but um by and large i thought the the three seamers uh held
11:23their lengths really well and you know didn't allow us to free our arms and didn't allow us any easy
11:27boundaries and that was probably the difference today between the two teams yeah right uh india had
11:33two bad uh top order collapses against usa and against south africa today and also you touched upon how
11:38india has been losing one wicket in the very first two and three games so is it reaching a matter
11:43of
11:44concern now to the management with this wickets losing a lot of wickets in the power play and at
11:49the early on itself um look it's certainly not panic stations and uh the sort of blueprint or the recipe
11:58so far for being uh successful is not the right word but by being consistent with the batting is that
12:06we
12:06have got out the blocks really quickly and uh you know abby's obviously a point of difference and so
12:12is ishan now that he's coming to the team so you know if those guys back for six overs the
12:17score is
12:17going to be 70 plus and you can do that on really good wickets so can we get them to
12:23temper the way
12:24they're playing and you know be a little bit smarter about their approach or do we just let them go
12:28on
12:28the way they are or do we bring in a right hand at the top as well and make a
12:32change somewhere in the
12:32middle uh you know those for me those are the three options we have and we'll be deliberating that in
12:38the in the next few days and putting our best 11 out to come channel in a couple of days
12:41ryan um
12:44after the usa game you told that our team has got the wake up and shake up call and in
12:50this game
12:51we lost very poorly but what was the conversation in dressing room did the 20 runs over during the
12:59last phase which we gave away um there we lost the game or the early wickets what was the conversation
13:05with the players or inside the team management we haven't had a chance to talk to the players yet
13:11i've been whisked across just straight away um but no you you want to be very careful when you're
13:17apportioning blame um so i'll go back to the things i said earlier is assessing and and a few key
13:23moments you know two no balls in an important game like this if you do the master quickly that's 14
13:28runs which is you know sort of eight seven eight percent of the runs given away before you've even
13:32bowled the ball um and then look with the the last over hardick bowling with four fielders out is always
13:40going to be a challenge so you know we we did look at boomer bowling 20 and hardick bowling 19
13:46that that
13:46could have been a tactical thing that we we might have done um so i think it's all these small
13:51small
13:51things put together and uh as a group we'll take responsibility for that and i think against
13:57good teams and and at the pressure point of the tournament um unfortunately you have to get
14:03majority of those small decisions right and we missed a few tonight thank you
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