Jonathan Trott is a straight shooter.
The previous England batter, who has been the top coach of Afghanistan for practically a few years now, believes that his staff has the firepower to defeat India, regardless of struggling a six-wicket defeat within the first T20I on Thursday.
As temperature dipped to almost six levels, dew performed an enormous function within the sport and the circumstances reminded Trott of ‘April in England and county cricket.’
Nonetheless, taking issues in his stride, Trott believes that sticking to fundamentals could be the important thing for Afghanistan in a bid to tame a star-studded aspect like India, “There are little issues that we have to get higher at if we wish to compete with the likes of India in India. And going ahead, with one eye barely on the T20 World Cup within the Caribbean, I imagine in these guys. I firmly imagine that if you come to India, we are able to win,” Trott stated.
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That’s the type of perception he has on these gamers. “It’s nearly doing the fundamentals for lengthy sufficient,” he stated. Inserted to bat, Afghanistan had a 50-run opening partnership, but it surely was a sluggish begin, and all of a sudden, there have been three fast wickets and Trott believes that each the issues damage the aspect.
“I believe it’s a mix of each. We had been 33 with out loss within the powerplay, and a little bit of credit score has to go to India with the best way they bowled. However then, we misplaced a wicket simply earlier than drinks, and had been at 57 for 3. So we didn’t have an excellent 4 overs after that, however we ended up scoring 110 within the final ten overs, and that reveals what might be achieved when the blokes get collectively,” he stated.
“There are good issues to take with us and there are definitely issues we have to work on. We had been just a bit bit brief with the bat, simply 20 to 25 runs. We had a very good begin and we had a chance…”
India misplaced two fast wickets of captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill early on, earlier than Shivam Dube led to a fightback. “India was in an analogous place having misplaced two wickets within the powerplay, after which, they actually performed nicely. We have to take a look at what we are able to do higher within the subsequent sport in Indore the place we make it as robust as potential, or not potential in any respect…”
Trailing 0-1 within the three-match sequence, the Afghans have tons to play for.