Sunday, March 18, 2007

Dravid's take on the loss to Bangladesh

Editor's note: Indian captain Rahul Dravid takes a hard look at the five-wicket defeat to Bangladesh
"It's a terrible defeat, probably the worst one. We've had some disheartening defeats in the past, but this is a huge disappointment."
"We didn't play well, everyone's going to be dejected."
"We could have just batted a lot better. We had the quality and should have done better, we just didn't bat well," said Dravid, who conceded that he had misread the pitch.
"The pitch was a tricky one, it had a pretty dry look about it.
We thought we should be a bit positive, go out there and try to put the runs on the board and make it difficult for them later on."
"Things didn't go that way, we lost early wickets at the top and again there was a flurry of wickets toward the end."
"In stops and starts, we lost clumps of wickets. We didn't play anywhere near our potential and paid the price for it."
Bangladesh is really playing some good cricket at the moment.
"The attack was quite outstanding ... Mortaza bowled in good areas with the new ball in conditions suiting him and then the spinners didn't give anything away."
"Defending 191 was never going to be easy."
"When you lose, you've got to take the criticism.
"We have our backs to the wall, but we know what we need to do."

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