00:00Well, did the Patriots score enough runs?
00:02Yeah, I felt they were a little tricky up front, you know.
00:04I thought the ball popped off a length.
00:06A bit up and down in the second half as well too.
00:08So not easy to bat on, not easy to start on.
00:10I think it's a wicket that you need to spend some time on
00:12in order to accumulate some runs.
00:14Maybe, in hindsight, we probably should have just settled
00:16in and around 1.30, 1.40 and be content with that.
00:19I felt that might have been, you know, good enough.
00:21But it's tough, you know, when you're trying to set a tournament,
00:24a new tournament, you know, expecting the wicket to be
00:25probably a little bit truer, but unfortunately it wasn't.
00:28He saw some areas of potential, but admitted more work needs to be done.
00:32We saw a lot of positives today.
00:34I felt we balled really well.
00:36Kevin obviously batted well as well.
00:38You know, a few boys looked apart, you know,
00:40for short periods of time, you know.
00:42So, I mean, still early days, you know, just one game.
00:45Yeah, hard to really decipher a lot from a performance like this,
00:48but I think still a lot of learning to be had.
00:51Akeel Hossein was happy to win his first match in charge
00:54of the Trinbago Knight Riders, as he felt the match played out
00:57in favour of the team that made better use of their experienced players.
01:01A great feeling.
01:03Much more so to have, you know, such a young team with new faces
01:07to put out that sort of bowling performance.
01:09I'm really happy.
01:10Did the surface play as you expected, given that you won the toss
01:15and chose the field first?
01:17We had our doubts, but with that being said,
01:21I think it was just experience that really took part,
01:25that made them, you know, end up in that situation.
01:29Sunil Narain opening the bowling.
01:32You know, it's probably a shocker to them, but such a world-class player,
01:35you know, you're going to expect those sort of performances from him.
01:38You also commented on the injury of Joshua Da Silva.
01:41Joshua Da Silva.
01:42How is he and what sort of forced you to get him out of the crease
01:48and get Jed Gouli in?
01:50It's early in the tournament.
01:51You know, Josh wasn't too well to start with.
01:55But, you know, that was a great effort from him.
01:58But with that being said, we didn't want to push him too far.
02:00And then, you know, something happened.
02:01He pulled something.
02:02You know, we thought it best as a unit, as a team,
02:05to pull him out and just get Jed in.
02:07And, you know, in these games, it could be tricky.
02:09You want to try and be as clinical as possible.
02:12Net run rate does play a factor in the Caribbean with a lot of rain around.
02:15So all those were factors that led to, you know, us pulling out Josh
02:18and trying to get the game finished as quickly as possible.
02:21Sergio Dufour, TV6 Sport.
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