Chepauk Super Gillies will regroup before Qualifier 2, says Badani

While Patriots has advanced to the final, Chepauk Super Gillies would need to regroup ahead of the second qualifier, a second chance to make it to the TNPL summit clash.

After the match against Tuti Patriots, coach Hemang Badani spoke on a variety of topics.

I think pretty much both the sides have been well equipped and have done well. If you look at last year and this year we both have been the top two sides. We have won six games and the only game we lost was against Tuti this year. So, it’s pretty much a mental game at the moment and we’ll have to set that right.

No. There wasn’t any strategy to see off Ganesh Moorthi. The strategy was just to watch the ball and play accordingly. Since he bowled well last year, we had decided to watch him, he did bowl well that day and play accordingly.

It’s a big game and in a pressure game it’s always good to have runs on the board. I thought that the wicket was a good surface to bat; it’s just that we played some poor shots. Pretty much I think if we had scored 130 or 140 runs the game would have been on. We lost wickets at regular intervals, didn’t have partnerships which we had in previous games which is why we got stuck at 115. If we had someone like S Karthik batting longer or Antony Dhas, if we had just scored a few more runs, the game was on.

We did bring in Sai in the second over itself and that was anyway the ploy to bring him in early. It might look like a few sixes went over square leg but they were not hit well and were top edges. If we could have gotten them early, the game would have been a lot better than this. Mind you Washington Sundar is batting very well. So let’s give credit to someone who is striking it well and hitting it in a different zone from any other player in the tournament. He is someone who will be a thorn in most teams’ sides. This is his fourth Man of the Match which clearly tells you he is batting far better than anyone else.