Head coach Jonathan Trott on Afghanistan's 107 run loss to South Africa
21/02/2025
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21/02/2025
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00:00Not an ideal start for the Champions Trophy.
00:19What went wrong today?
01:49Lahore and Afghanistan known to produce some good results on the spin wickets in Asia.
01:55So looking forward to those two matches after this early setback. Thank you.
02:00Yeah, obviously support is great. I think the guys enjoy support wherever they go, certainly in the UAE or here.
02:07So hopefully we'll get more of that in Lahore and it'll spur the guys on.
02:12Yeah, I think obviously it's pretty clear what we need to do now. We know we didn't play well enough today.
02:16We know we've got to pull our socks up and play a lot better
02:19against England on the 26th and against Australia on the 28th.
02:25Between over number 11 to 40, Afghanistan used to build their running quite well, but today they just scored
02:33161 runs and lost six wickets.
02:34So don't you really think that Afghanistan needs some stability in the middle of a leg, which they do in the World Cup 2023?
02:41So they need that same momentum today because wicket was not offering too much for the bowlers as well.
02:47But they are using short ball again, Afghanistan. So how do you summarize these sort of things?
02:53I think
02:56the Openers need to set up the game as well with the top
02:59three or four batters and I think within their dismissals, there were a few soft dismissals.
03:04I think a lot of dot balls early on. I think the pitch sort of
03:09at this evening sort of aided the South African bowlers and I think they bowled really well and made it quite hard work for us.
03:15But there are a lot of soft dismissals there for me and something I'll be chatting to the batters about and
03:20how to go about it a little bit better perhaps for the rest of the tournament.
03:27Hi Jonathan, going forward, like you know, it's back-to-back games. Any particular area that you would like to address?
03:35All three, bowling, batting and fielding.
03:38Any particular area that you would like to address?
03:50I think we could do better with the new ball, take wickets.
03:53We need to take wickets in the power play, make it easier for our spinners
03:57coming on and bowling at newer batters or batters who aren't set or coming out of the power play.
04:04Fielding, there's a few missed fields
04:06and we need to be a little bit sharper in certain areas. And then today the batting, as I said already, a few soft dismissals
04:12under pressure and things we need to get better and do better
04:17on the 26th.
04:19Hi Jonathan,
04:20this was probably the first time Afghanistan were playing in Karachi.
04:24So you guys have played all around the world in Sharjah and in India,
04:29but like how was it playing over here? There's like a great crowd turned up and it wasn't a Pakistan match.
04:35So how are the players feeling and how are they playing here?
04:38Really good. I think they, you know, as I said, I've been asked the question already, is that they enjoy any support.
04:45You know, whether we're in Sharjah or whether we're in Abu Dhabi.
04:48So to get the sort of home crowd advantage like we did tonight is awesome. And we certainly hope
04:54that that'll be the case in Lahore for both our games.
05:05Hi, do you think Afghanistan have issues in middle order, especially in batting?
05:14Do you think it's need to be solved?
05:18Well, yeah, I think any time you get bowled out for just over 200,
05:23chasing 300, you're going to ask the middle order,
05:26especially when one player gets 90, batting at number four.
05:29You ask, you sometimes look around and if somebody had batted with him
05:33and been able to build a partnership like we've spoken about,
05:37you know, we could have got ourselves close to the title today.
05:40So that's the most disappointing thing is one person showed us exactly how it could be done
05:45and get us close if there had just been a few guys who had had a similar day to him.
05:52So, yeah, it's everyone's responsibility.
05:54Jonathan, nowadays we see a lot of players play franchise cricket together
06:04and then they played against each other.
06:06So what do you say?
06:07This thing is helpful, knowing each other or knowing their strengths and weaknesses,
06:12or you think that this franchise thing has just made things more difficult
06:17for teams playing against each other?
06:20I don't, I'm not quite sure whether it's a pro or a con, really.
06:27But one thing I do think is that there's a lot of,
06:31it's quite difficult to get that rivalry going when last week
06:34some players were playing in the same team together,
06:37or this week they're playing against each other.
06:39So it makes it a little bit confusing thing for some players.
06:43But for me, we've got to make sure that when we play against anyone on the 26th,
06:48it's 11 versus 11, and we're going out there to beat them.
06:52And whereas today, a lot of these players have played together in franchises in the SA20.
07:01And so it's always tricky where the line is between rivalry or friendships on or off the field.
07:08But I think the way that we play the game is the right way.
07:10And we've never, I don't think we've ever really got that fall
07:15on the wrong side of how I think it should be.