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The captain has today spoken about the defeat against Sage last night,'We started the game very badly, and never looked like crawling back into it from then on in. Apart from Asman who I thought was superb, the rest of the bowlers need to take a real hard look at themselves. They gave far too many opportunities for the opposition to score freely and then when we created opportunity we simply could not take it. We couldnt catch anything all night and even if we played all night we wouldnt have grabbed anything. It was a really poor bowling and fielding effort from the team. Their opener played well, but he really should have been back in the hut long before and that really cost us the game. We have to improve in these areas otherwise it will be a long hard season.
The captain later payed tribute to his team for fighting to the very end,'Even though they scored a big total, it was easily manageable. There was a short boundary and we were too late in taking adavantage of it. I thought we lost our way in the middle order. We should have built a partnership but lost three wickets quickly for hardly any runs. It was very disappointing indeed. I have to give credit to Javed for a superb effort and while I was there in the middle with him, we decided to take it into the final two overs and that's what we did. I was happy with the way we fought and it shows that their is a real spirit among our group. To be fair, Sage caught everything all night so full credit to them, they deserved to win.
Khan is quickly looking forward to his team to refocus,'Well, we are hurt but I rather we produce such a performance early in the season. We have to learn our lessons very quickly because there is no doubt that the quality has gone up a level. We know where we went wrong and are hoping to put things right in future games'.
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