USA coach Stuart Law on T20 World Cup defeat to India and last 8 hopes
USA coach Stuart Law on keeping their last 8 hopes alive despite their ICC T20 Cricket World Cup defeat to India. India chased down the USA's total of 110 for 8, reaching 11 for 3 with 10 balls to spare.
Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, New York, USA
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00:00It seemed pretty clear cut by the halfway point of the chase that you were going to
00:06bowl 20 overs apace.
00:08That seemed like a pretty clear approach and yet you had the two warnings and then the
00:14third resulted in the penalty runs.
00:17Why was that allowed to happen in terms of stalling between overs in spite of the fact
00:23that you seemed to know what your plan was the whole time?
00:28We talk about this.
00:29We had a few warnings in earlier games and it's something we do talk about to get through
00:34faster between the overs.
00:37It's just one thing that we can improve on.
00:41I think that we're only a fledgling team.
00:45There's plenty to learn.
00:46There's not just the cricket aspect of the game of cricket but there's also the other
00:49intricacies that need to be embedded.
00:53It's a rule that's only just come in and a lot of our players wouldn't have heard about
00:57it before we played in the Bangladesh series or the Canada series earlier this year.
01:02It's something that we need to address.
01:04We'll sit down and talk about it but we can improve it.
01:07Did you feel that that rattled immensely when that happened because that seemed like a pretty
01:10clear momentum shift?
01:11I don't think it affected the outcome of the game.
01:13Five runs wasn't going to affect the outcome of the game so I don't think it rattled them.
01:17No, I thought we stuck to our guns.
01:19We fought hard.
01:20We fought to the death.
01:21I thought we showed some fantastic character against one of the best teams in the world.
01:26Proud of the defeat or disappointed?
01:32What exactly would you say?
01:34Is it a good message to all the people in the US that the US can fight a big team?
01:40I think we showed that.
01:42We beat Pakistan.
01:43We beat Bangladesh earlier or Pakistan a couple of days ago and Bangladesh earlier this year.
01:50Disappointed?
01:51Yes.
01:52I think we probably could have won that.
01:56That's probably the feeling in the dressing room right now but good teams and great teams
02:01they find ways to win from adverse situations and I think the Indian dugout would have been
02:06nervous at one stage as well but great teams, they find a way to win.
02:11Hi, Zizadi with Crick Exec.
02:16Can you tell us a bit about Monank who didn't play today and what his status is and what's
02:24the prognosis for him being able to play against Ireland?
02:27It's a day by day thing.
02:28He's got a niggle in his shoulder so we're monitoring that daily.
02:33The medical staff will sit with him either tonight or tomorrow and make an assessment
02:37but he's improving which is good.
02:40He just wasn't good enough to get out there to play today at full capacity so it's on
02:45the improve which is great news for Monank.
02:48Sid and then we'll go to the back.
02:52Stuart, just back to the five run penalty.
02:55You said that you've been warned in the past but you also said that maybe not everyone
02:59in the team knew of the rule.
03:02Were you kind of taken by surprise that this happened or were you well aware that there
03:06could be a five run penalty if you took more than a minute three times?
03:10I'm not sure what you're trying to get at there mate but what I will answer is players
03:17know the rule but it's something that if you haven't played with it for a long time it's
03:21very difficult to have it embedded in your brain.
03:25So the information coming from the umpires was they were given two clear warnings then
03:31it's up to the players to respond and we didn't respond fast enough, we didn't do it well
03:37enough and that's something we can address.
03:39Vijay?
03:40Sorry, Vijay.
03:41Tagore.
03:42Stuart, staying with the five run penalty, that was a rule and it was avoided, five runs
03:53were avoided.
03:54But personally what do you think as a cricketer yourself, accomplished cricketer, should that
04:01rule be there or is it not, it has not suffered, the quality of cricket has not suffered, you
04:06think the game should be completed fast or the quality of cricket should be retained?
04:14I think there needs to be a pace of play, I think if you're dragging games out that should
04:19last three and a half hours, they're going for four and a half hours, that's a bit much.
04:23The ICC are there to install rules and regulations, we as coaches and teams we're there to follow
04:31those rules and regulations and if there's enough voices saying that it may be detracting
04:38from the game I'm sure the ICC will act to it but I don't see it as a bad thing, I see
04:43it as a good thing, the game continues to move, when momentum is with you, you want
04:48to keep that momentum running quicker and put the opposition under pressure that way.
04:52So it's neither here nor there, it didn't affect the result of the game I don't think,
04:58as many people will suggest, but to lose five runs was crucial at that time, but once
05:05again it may have just taken us to the 19th or 20th over rather than finishing it in the 18th.
05:17So Harmeet Singh has a history of playing against Shivam Dubey, playing with and against
05:22Shivam Dubey and Surya Kumar Yadav, the last time Surya Kumar Yadav and Harmeet Singh met
05:27in the 2018 Mumbai Premier League game, Harmeet bowled Surya Kumar very cheaply, now I understand
05:33it has a lot of factors in determining who bowls, probably the pitch played a factor
05:38as well, but was the decision to not bowl Harmeet a collective one or a decision taken
05:44on the ground and how do you look at that decision?
05:46Are you suggesting that he got him out six years ago, that these guys haven't improved
05:53against left arm spin?
05:57The decision not to bowl left arm spinner to a big strapping left-handed batsman who
06:01hits the ball miles, I think was a smart decision.
06:06Surya Kumar Yadav, he plays left arm spin every day of the week, so it was a smart decision.
06:12We had five fast bowlers in our line-up to try and do the job, the pitch didn't spin,
06:18the pitch went up and down, so I think our tactics were right, the execution of our tactics
06:24probably with a five-run penalty wasn't quite on point, but I can't fault our players, their
06:30energy, their attitude and their desire to win, their fight, showed a lot of character
06:35and I'm very, very proud of my team.
06:38Kaushik, and then we're moving to the side of the building.
06:43Stuart, you spoke about the win against Bangladesh earlier and the other win against Pakistan,
06:47can you just tell us in a nutshell the kind of work that has gone behind the scenes in
06:50trying to get these players to believe in themselves that they can compete with the
06:54big boys?
06:55It's nothing that no other team's going through as well, we sat down and we asked players
07:02what sort of role do they want, and sat with a player and talked it out.
07:09Players have got roles, they know their role, and I'm not here to tell them how to play,
07:15I'm here to help them play the way they want to play, and they know that I've got their
07:19back if it doesn't quite work their way, but also if they aren't performing, well we need
07:25to sit down and address it as well.
07:29Good relationships are built on trust, I think there's a lot of trust in that dressing room
07:33towards me and what I'm trying to achieve with the players, I'm just sitting here watching
07:38them go out and play the way they want to play.
07:40They want to be the best they can be, I'm just here to help them achieve that, and that
07:44was the conversation before we started against Canada, I'm not going to tell you how to play,
07:51that's not my job, my job is to get you to play the best cricket you can, and I think
07:55we've seen that, it's our second loss in 11 games, and I think that's something to be
07:59pretty proud of.
08:03I just wanted to ask, obviously Net Travalka took those two wickets at the start, and he
08:07bowled his three overs off the reel at the start, was that always likely to happen, or
08:10was that because he took the two early wickets?
08:12No, it wasn't, and he was running hot, he was full of confidence after the super over
08:17against Pakistan as well, he bowled beautifully in that game also, and look he got the ball
08:23to do a bit, that ball that nearly bowled Rishabh Pant, if that had happened there and
08:27then we know we could have been sitting here telling a different story, but look he's a
08:33class act, call him the Iceman now after that super over, and look when he's running hot
08:41like that, one more wicket at that stage, it could have been the difference, so we needed
08:47to take wickets, we needed to bowl India out basically to win the game, we were never going
08:50to contain them with the power hitters they still had in the shed, you know Hardik Pandya,
08:54Aksar Patel still to come, we needed to bowl them out, so wickets up front was crucial,
09:00we just didn't quite get enough from that power play.
09:04Last question.
09:05Hi Stuart, Drugved here, 110, 120 is seeming like a par score on this wicket,
09:12what is so difficult to score runs on this wicket?
09:16Well it's easy from where I sat, I got 100 every time, now when the wicket's up and down
09:23and arriving at two different paces, even though the bowler's not changing his pace,
09:27that makes it difficult to get into a rhythm to score or to hit balls, so look I feel for
09:32the ground staff, they had a very short time to get the pitches up to their standard, what
09:38they thought would be optimum, it hasn't worked out that way for whatever reason,
09:43I know it hasn't been through lack of hard work, and look it's just a shame,
09:49we haven't seen the big scores that we wanted to put on here in the US,
09:53but what it has provided is a very good contest between bat and ball and some very exciting
09:58cricket, the games that we've watched at this stadium so far, they've all been very tight,
10:03they've all been very good to watch, and that also will intrigue some of the minds here in America,
10:09that cricket's not just about smashing fours and sixes, it's also about some technical adjustments
10:16and good cricket play, so look it hasn't worked out for the ground staff, it's a shame because
10:24they're great blokes and they work their socks off, but I think the cricketers who have gone
10:28out there to play on it, they've done their best, batting's been brutal, bowling's really
10:34been the king here and sometimes they provide good cricket. Thanks everyone, we'll have Sarab
10:39Netravalkar for the mix on. Cheers guys, thank you.