Canada's Navneet Dhaliwal previews ICC T20 World Cup group clash with Ireland

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Canada's Navneet Dhaliwal previews ICC T20 World Cup group clash with Ireland Nassau County International Stadium, New York, USA

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00:00Hi there, obviously you've just arrived from Dallas and you'd have seen the game

00:06the two games here probably footage of it probably quite different conditions

00:11that you'd have seen in Dallas I guess how is that going to affect your the way

00:14you prepare to play against Ireland? Yes exactly the conditions are different

00:23especially the drop-in we've been prepared for it we know we had the

00:28experience for the drop-ins in Global T20 it's a local league so we were

00:33expecting that but I think the practice area wickets are quite similar to these

00:39so we are kind of getting more time betting there and trying to execute

00:44tomorrow. And so you have practiced that at the park have you nearby? Yes yes the

00:50practice area wickets are also drop-ins so it's kind of a similar you can say

00:56the wickets in the center and that's where we are trying to kind of get used

01:02to the conditions. Yeah because I mean obviously I'm guessing that all the

01:06teams are thinking you win the toss and bowl and you just try and do as much

01:09damage as you can. Yeah it's always safer you know bowling first you know the

01:15target if if the other team doesn't score too much so you can just play a

01:19normal cricket and kind of chase it so it's always kind of a benefit to bowl

01:23first. And sorry if you could please state your name and affiliation before

01:27asking a question that'd be much appreciated. That was James Cohen from the

01:29cricketer sorry about that. Thanks. Peter Nelapanda with Dream Cricket what's the

01:35biggest adjustment that you have to make whether skill-wise mentally coming from

01:43Dallas to play in this facility that you've obviously not played imagined

01:47before? I think that Dallas wicket is quite flat it's a betting paradise you

01:52can say you can swing through the line this wicket is bit kind of what you can

01:59say a tricky one so you cannot play some of the t20 shots you can say so you have

02:05to play a conventional cricket and and and what I see it's playing on the up

02:12it's little bit difficult than Dallas. Difficult in what way specifically? It's

02:21a lot of lateral movement so there's a lot of swing comparatively to Dallas so

02:26if you kind of want to basically hit the good length balls it's a bit difficult.

02:36This is Siddharth from Crickinfo. Why do you think these pitchers are doing

02:42doing what they're doing are they under prepared or haven't have they not

02:46bedded in? See drop-in wickets it takes time to settle it down I think normally

02:53it takes around a year or so but that's what it's not ideally it's I think it's

03:02a bit early but still still it's a challenge correct like the par for

03:08Dallas is what 180-190 and par for here is 120-130 it's it's a different

03:15wicket and a different kind of a competition you can say it's it's

03:19exciting basically. You just said it's exciting you have you must have friends

03:24in Canada who are not cricket fans if you were to if you were to bring them to

03:30this to cricket through this these kind of games would they be excited? I think

03:36it's it's always not about just runs so we have to agree that there are bowlers

03:44in the teams too so some wickets will benefit batsmen and some will benefit

03:48bowlers so this is a some a wicket which is bowler friendly so you have to play

03:53accordingly you have to adjust.

03:58Anyone else?

04:02That concludes.

04:06Just coming off the USA game seeing what happened to Ireland today you

04:15know it's a must-win game for both teams you're both coming in with a loss for

04:19the next match are you in desperation mode right now or are you thinking

04:27that far ahead in terms of the equation to try and finish in the top two to get

04:32to the Super 8? I think right now we're just focusing on the Ireland game I

04:37think that's the priority for us we all sit together and basically saw the game

04:45how the wicket is behaving and our full focus is on the Ireland game we are not

04:51thinking anything beyond that right now.

04:56Is that everyone? Just thinking back to the qualifier in 2019 I know it's five

05:02years ago now but you've got a win over Ireland in this format some of the

05:07squads have changed a little bit Nitish Kumar was player of the match today he's

05:10obviously with USA now but you have some familiarity with the Irish players how

05:15much stock do you still put into that victory from five years ago in terms of

05:20maintaining a certain level of confidence or belief that you still got a

05:25core group of players who were there that day in 2019 in the UAE to feel like

05:30you've got a genuine chance to beat them again? I think yeah last time we played

05:36in 2019 and we able to surprise them that time and we are hoping we can do

05:44this again especially with the few more players who are kind of senior players

05:53like especially like Cleem Sana, Aaron Johnson so it's kind of add value to the

05:58team so we are hoping we can surprise them again. Thanks so much for attending

06:05the press conference

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