Rajasthan Royals head coach Rahul Dravid has joked that his inability to walk has had no bearing on his coaching this season. Dravid had accepted the mistakes made by Rajasthan and said that they needed to minimise the small mistakes that they were making in all departments of the game.
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00:00So Sanju experienced a bit of pain in the abdominal area, so we have gone for scans, he has done some scans today, so we are awaiting the results of those scans and then once we get a bit more clarity around the scans and the severity of it, we will take a decision going forward and we will see what happens.
00:22My second question is, the team's performance has been quite disappointing so far with the perplexing decisions by the management undermining the potential of the team. For instance, like in the previous game we saw that Jofra Archer was overlooked in the super over, similarly Nitish Rana. So who is taking these calls? Can you please address the elephant in the room?
00:45Okay, so while I will accept your fact that we have been a bit disappointing this season, there is no doubt about it, when you lose 5 games out of 7, it is important to accept the fact that we probably haven't played to our potential.
01:00But then a lot of decisions can always be looked at from outside and termed as perplexing, as you use the word, but there is a lot of thought that goes into some of these decisions.
01:16Some of them work out, some of them don't. You know, and I back the intelligence and the judgment of the people that I have around me. The decisions are being made by me and with Sanju Samson being an integral part of that and in consultation with our other coaches and our analyst team.
01:35So, like with a lot of other teams, a lot of these decisions are being made by people who are pretty much experts in the field and who spend a lot of time in the field.
01:45So, while they may seem perplexing to a lot of people on the outside, no one claims that every decision that even experts make works out and is correct.
01:56But I respect the fact and I am very confident of the team that I have around me that is supporting me and Sanju in making these decisions.
02:07With regards to the specific one on Jofra and Sandeep, Sandeep is someone that we trust. He has been bowling some fantastic overs for us.
02:15He has bowled all the difficult overs for us in this tournament and we completely back him and support him.
02:22And, you know, we felt he was the right bowler for us on that wicket and in those conditions with the skills that he has.
02:29You know, I am certainly doing everything that I was to do as a...
02:58If I had two legs and there is nothing that has stopped me from doing anything, again, I have had some good support around me and people have really supported me.
03:08So, yeah, it is just one of those things. It is a small injury. It does not stop me from thinking. It does not stop me from communicating.
03:14And as a coach, honestly, those are the more important things. Your ability to communicate, your ability to think, your ability to analyze situations.
03:22Yeah, I had, there were some days early on, some time ago when me being fit on two feet was very, very important for the team.
03:30At the moment, I think, you know, that is not that important.
03:34David Sir, your team has had such a possession in any field in the previous tournament, neither in the batting, nor in the balling, nor in the fielding.
03:46So, what is the cause of the same baller, the same baller, the same fielder? Why is it down on your position?
03:52Yes, I definitely believe that, as I said before, in the question of the question.
03:58I definitely believe that after seven matches, our performance wasn't so good. It was a little inconsistent.
04:04Look, in the matches, we had a lot of good performance. But in some matches, it wasn't good.
04:10Especially in the last match, we had some mistakes, small mistakes, which was a close match.
04:16It was a close match, it was a close match, it was a close match, but we believe that our performance wasn't good.
04:22But I hope that the boys are really hard, we are thinking about it, we are thinking about it, not that it is not going to be hard, effort is going to be very hard.
04:30The boys are really practicing, thinking about it, and they are thinking about it.
04:35And they also feel, and the boys feel that we should improve our performance and improve.
04:43And I hope that, hopefully, in the next seven matches, and in the future, we are not out of the tournament.
04:50We can also win the matches and win the knockout in this situation.
04:56So, we don't believe that we have a good performance.
05:00We believe that we need a good performance and a good performance.
05:05We believe that we have a good performance.
05:17Sir.
05:18Sorry.
05:20Hi.
05:21Hi.
05:22From ETV.
05:23Sir.
05:24It seems that the opening pair is not playing like that.
05:27In the past, you were with Joe Sputner.
05:30Then you talked about the attack.
05:32You also had Ashwin and Chahal.
05:34So, they are missing in this season.
05:36If they are in the team, there is a different scenario.
05:39Look, there is no such thing.
05:41If you look at our opening partnership, they have a good performance.
05:47Both, Yashaswi and Sanju, were playing really well.
05:51In the last match, they also gave us the start of the game.
05:55Unfortunately, Sanju's injury had to go out.
05:59I don't want to say that it is a turning point.
06:03Because they have a good performance.
06:05We also have confidence in them.
06:07But they also have a good partnership.
06:10They are playing really well.
06:12Our opening partnership is a great spot.
06:15We both have a good performance.
06:19There are many matches where we can't perform in every match.
06:23But we are doing a good performance.
06:26A good performance is something that's not what we're doing.
06:28We are doing a really good performance.
06:29We do not have any same team.
06:33You never meet such teams.
06:34You never need to have a form of changes.
06:37You need to have a forcefully.
06:38You don't need to have something to do.
06:39You don't need to have some rules.
06:41You have to follow the action and the action and follow them.
06:45You do not have to serve a game like the game.
06:50You don't have to do the game so all that you can do it.
06:53But we have to believe that the team that we have selected and picked, that is a good team.
07:00Of course, as I said, I have not been consistent in 7 matches.
07:04But the team is good, players are good.
07:06Like you said, our Sri Lantan spinners are very good in the world.
07:10It's not that they play on the subcontinent.
07:13It's not that they play spinners.
07:16It's not that they are young guys.
07:18So, it's not that they are not the team.
07:23I will say that the team is a little higher.
07:26But the team is still working.
07:28The effort is still working.
07:29So, we will see that we will do better.
07:31Private Sir.
07:33Private Sir.
07:36Private Sir.
07:37First of all, the best compliments for your health.
07:39Thank you so much.
07:40I would like to say that you have another match on home ground.
07:44How many more points do you think?
07:46I would like to say that when the first match was done,
07:48I did not perform any other team.
07:50No.
07:51Actually, last match, I have been here in the SMA Stadium.
07:55I have honestly said that when the first inning was finished,
07:58we had made 173 runs.
08:00I was very happy.
08:02Because I thought that it was a good score on the wicket.
08:06But there are little things that happen.
08:08We had 2-3 catches in the first 6-over.
08:10We did not have catch.
08:12Two of them were the first set.
08:14Salt and Kohli.
08:15And then they both have made a run for them.
08:17So, if we can get 2 catches,
08:19it will probably be different.
08:21So, we also know that we have to take some catches.
08:26We have to take some catches.
08:28We have to take some time, critical shots,
08:30where we have to shoot the catches.
08:32So, that is also an effort to improve.
08:35We have to work on that.
08:36So, there are little things.
08:38There are little things.
08:39But we are always happy to come to the SMA Stadium.
08:41We are always happy to come to the SMA Stadium.
08:43It feels really good to play here.
08:45The support we get here.
08:47We get to the Jepore.
08:48We get to the Jepore.
08:49We get to the Jepore.
08:50We get to the Jepore.
08:51We get to the Jepore.
08:52We are happy to come here.
08:53We are happy to come here.
08:54So, we hope to come to the Jepore.
08:55Hopefully, we will be happy to come to the Jepore.
08:57Hopefully, we will be happy to come here.
08:59I will be happy to come here.
09:00Hi, Rauj.
09:01Hi.
09:02I just want, you know, the two crucial phases of the game,
09:05like, you know, towards the middle overs and like bowling.
09:08You somehow, the team has, you know, in the dead overs,
09:12it has leaked quite a bit of runs.
09:13And same with the, you know, middle overs.
09:15Where the, you know, 30-40 runs, like, you know,
09:18has been the standard thing.
09:20Do you think it's somewhere down the line an impact,
09:22like somebody who could make an impact?
09:24You are missing someone on that sort and going forward,
09:28what's your strategy like?
09:29Like you rightly said, it's still in the contention, so.
09:33Yeah, and I agree with you.
09:35I think our death bowling, we've suffered a little bit
09:38with our death bowling.
09:39We conceded, I think, we conceded 77 in the last five,
09:43in the last game.
09:44And the game earlier where we conceded 72.
09:46And, you know, so I think it's, again, that's another area
09:49for us that we need to get slightly better with, you know,
09:53working with slightly more in execution.
09:55I think our plans actually have been pretty good.
09:57It's just more around the execution of some of those skills.
10:00And we just need to get a bit tighter and better than that.
10:04It's not that a lot of teams are leaking runs,
10:06are going for runs in the power play.
10:08But like you rightly said, it's those extra 15-16 runs
10:11that we seem to go for.
10:12You know, even if, say, for example, a 57-60 sort of thing
10:16is an acceptable in the last five overs,
10:19it's become almost a norm now.
10:21We seem to go for 72-77.
10:23So, which, you know, has been those two or three extra boundaries
10:26which I think we need to work on and we need to get sort of get better at.
10:30But it's more an execution issue.
10:32I think the quality is there.
10:33Right through the middle overs, we've got a couple of really good spinners.
10:35We've got people who take the pace off the ball.
10:37We just haven't executed and, like I said earlier,
10:40we probably haven't taken one or two crucial catches
10:42which meant that, you know, new batsmen have been at the crease.
10:45Like, even in the last game, I think, you know,
10:47we put down a catch a little later on in the game
10:49that probably would have meant a new batsman would have been at the crease
10:52and maybe Stubbs wouldn't have been at the crease at the end.
10:54So, you know, these are small things sometimes that make a difference.
10:57But, yeah, certainly the death bowling is something that, you know,
11:03we would like to get better at.
11:04Now, sir, here, here. I'm Srivatsan from News24.
11:09Here, here, here. Srivatsan.
11:10Yeah, hi.
11:11Sir, abhi-tak, aapne imaandari se maana ki kuch jaghe catch utha,
11:14us ke karen nuqsaan huwa, eckne match huye.
11:16Aysi kawun si kami aapko laggi,
11:18jhaa per aapko aur better karne ki juburutah.
11:20Or, kalke kuchh strategy per change,
11:22aapko nazer arra ha, karenge aap loog,
11:24uske purane match ke experience ke aadaar per.
11:27Deekhi, jyese me na, fielding pe baat huyni ki,
11:29mein, mein maanthau ki,
11:31har jagah mein haam implement dikha sakte hain.
11:33Sirf fielding hi baat nahi hain.
11:34Baiting, bowling bhi,
11:36hum, aap, thoda aur bhaater kar sakte hain.
11:38Jab aap, saat matches mein,
11:40aap sirf dho jiette hain.
11:41To, aapko isudhaar ki to, zururut hai.
11:43Aapko implement dikha na chahiye.
11:45Aapko implement karna chahiye.
11:46Aapko implement karna chahiye.
11:47Aap, aur, uske uper, aap,
11:48aap, pura prayas hooga.
11:50Aap, definitely, aap,
11:52aap, changes, deekhiye,
11:54aap, aap,
11:55kal dekhinge.
11:56Pehle, mein, usually, mein,
11:58team bathana nahi chahata,
12:00kyunki us mein koohi fayda nahi hai.
12:01Opposition ko bhi bata chal jata hai,
12:03ki aap kya team kya hai.
12:05To, kal, aapko pata chalega,
12:07ki, kuch wadlaav hai,
12:08ya nahi wadlaav hai.
12:09Obviously, Sanju ko bhi dekha jayega,
12:11ki kya kaisi situation.
12:13Good evening, Rahul sir.
12:14This is Suhas from Times of India.
12:16My question is,
12:17we are not living up to the expectations
12:19of the last year.
12:21We lost five matches out of seven.
12:23There are reports in the media that
12:25Captain Sanju Samson and Head Coach Rahul David
12:28are not on the same page.
12:30There is a drift in the team.
12:32Would you like to answer this?
12:36No, no.
12:37I mean, I don't know where these reports are coming from.
12:39They are not.
12:40We are actually really on the same page.
12:42Sanju is a very integral part of, you know,
12:44all the decision making
12:45and I have a really good rapport with him.
12:47He is very much an integral part of the team.
12:50You know, he is involved in each and every discussion
12:53and decision that we make.
12:56So, yeah, no.
12:58I mean, obviously when you lose games
12:59and things don't go right,
13:00sometimes you face a criticism
13:03and, you know, like we are happy to front up
13:05to the criticism of not performing well
13:07or not doing well
13:08and that is something we can think.
13:10But, you know, there is baseless stuff
13:12we cannot really answer
13:14or we cannot really, you know,
13:16we cannot do anything about baseless stuff.
13:18So, to be very honest, you know,
13:19I think the spirit in the team has been really good.
13:21There is some really good energy.
13:23I mean, I have been really impressed
13:24with the way the guys have worked so hard
13:26and they were hurting, you know.
13:27I think what is one of the things people don't see
13:29is how much the players hurt themselves
13:31and how bad they feel.
13:32You know, they have been feeling very bad
13:34especially after the last game in Delhi
13:36and I think everyone realized
13:37that we made a few small mistakes
13:39that we should have, you know, won that game.
13:41And so everyone is hurting now, you know,
13:43and that is all you can ask for for the coaches, right?
13:45You can ask for care.
13:46You can ask for people to show care for the team
13:50and show hard work.
13:52Sometimes the results go your way
13:53and sometimes they don't, you know,
13:54and we have to learn from that
13:55and we have to move on
13:57and we have to keep looking ahead.
13:59Looking ahead.
14:01Yeah.
14:02Our team is a young team and our team is the best player in our team, Sandeep Sharma.
14:20All the guys in our team are young.
14:24We trust our players.
14:35We don't want to do more changes.
14:39We don't want to panic.
14:41We support and back our boys.
14:53We have brought them to us.
14:55They are very good players.
14:57They have played for many years in Rajasthan.
15:00We need some stability.
15:02Sometimes the results come down.
15:04If you react every time.
15:07My general philosophy is not.
15:10I would say that if you select someone,
15:13you can support them.
15:15If you select someone,
15:17you have to do one or two matches.
15:19After one or two matches,
15:20you have to do something.
15:22If you have to change the changes,
15:24you have to do something.
15:26If you change the changes,
15:28you have to change the conditions.
15:30You have to do something.
15:32But generally, as a philosophy,
15:33I believe that if you select the girls,
15:36you have to change the right way.
15:38You have to support them.
15:39You have to pack them.
15:40You have to do something.
15:41Then you get to see a good performance.