Ruturaj Gaikwad Losing Captain (1/2) – To be honest, sometimes I hate to judge it this way, but I actually thought it was a bit challenging, especially for medium pacers, it was a bit stilted and two-paced. Even the bounce was a bit up-and-down, but I felt if we had not lost too many wickets further, we could still probably have got to 170 or 180, which would have been competitive. However, I really suspect that, even after the batting powerplay, we just kept coming in. It was a bit difficult to play some shots. (On the pitch) To be honest, there was no expectation. You know, it’s really hard to gauge how this will play out. The last three games that we played here, I think we kind of knew how it was going to play or, you know, we were in a position where we thought, OK, 60% would be played this way, 70% would be played this way, but this game, we had no idea how it was going to play and, you know, by the time we wanted to adapt and make changes, we were too late and then after that, even if we wanted to, we tried, but This did not happen. Get down. You know, at the first timeout when Flem (CSK coach Stephen Fleming) came, I said I am trying to be positive, I am trying to be aggressive, but it is just, sometimes I am waiting. The ball is coming up a little bit, and sometimes I’m waiting, for a snowball, or the ball will come at the speed that the last ball came in, but it came in a little too fast or with a little more bounce, or with a little less bounce, so I told him I’m trying to change that as much as possible, but it’s not happening at the moment. It was really difficult to change every ball, wondering what would happen, so it was just about assessing or hoping that it would come out well, but it didn’t. I would say it was a holiday from the first ball and I also thought we were a bit sloppy in the field. Although he started really well, we have to put it aside and wait for the next one.
