Captain Brian Masaba on Uganda's 125-run WC defeat to Afghanistan

Captain Brian Masaba on Uganda's 125-run WC defeat to Afghanistan  04/06/2024  Guyana National Stadium, Providence, Guyana

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00:00The first ever World Cup for a senior team and the Jitters

00:29were there but Uganda happy to get this one out of the system and despite the

00:34125 run loss our captain Brian MacMasawa is here to answer your beautiful

00:39questions

01:00no not at all in the context of the game I thought it was a good decision

01:06obviously a side that loves chasing we've seen that from history and you

01:12know we backed us off to go out there and ball well and try and restrict them

01:15unfortunately our execution wasn't that great and they got off the flyer but you

01:20know we put the game back in the second half of our bowling innings and I look

01:25back at that decision and I'm not I don't think it was a bad decision you

01:31think some of the plans were not well executed in both departments

01:35absolutely you know there's a couple of things we'd spoken about that we didn't

01:40do so well I thought we gave away too many boundaries you know and to a side

01:45like Afghanistan you do that and you're going to get punished so yeah I thought

01:50we could have bowled a bit better maybe bowled a bit more to our plans but we

01:55didn't execute that well the experience of playing at this level and and what

02:02do you think you have to do now in your next match to improve and hopefully get

02:06a victory under your belt yeah it's obviously a much higher level than we

02:10regularly play at so you know what step up our game a long way but I mean

02:16Afghanistan topside they've done really well over the last couple of years so

02:20you know it's no surprise they're playing the way they do but you know

02:25just focusing on ourselves again it's an execution thing I know we can play better

02:31than we did today we've done it in the past so you know it's a small turnaround

02:35between now and the next game so you know we need to get we need to get our

02:40minds back on track and make sure we come out and execute a bit better in our

02:43next game captain a bright spot must be the way that you finish the innings

02:47especially with the ball 30-odd runs were scored in the last six overs if I'm

02:52correct so the way that you came back with the ball must have pleased you yeah

02:56that's a huge bonus for us in a T20 game very often the game can go very quickly

03:02in the last five overs so you know especially considering the fact that

03:05we're under the pump for most of the innings so to come back like that and

03:09restrict them the way we did it's a huge bonus for us and we look to carry that

03:13into our games going forward thank you very much and best of luck for the

03:17remaining games thank you thank you