GT batting coach stresses on importance of fielding after loss against Lucknow

India Today

Gujarat Titans batting coach Parthiv Patel has stressed the importance of improving the team's fielding following a six-wicket loss against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at Ekana Stadium. Gujarat succumbed to their second loss of the ongoing season.

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00:00There was no doubt in playing the wrong shots.

00:03The pitch was a bit slow.

00:06It was not easy to play the game.

00:09The batting was difficult to do.

00:11He also looked at the LSD innings.

00:13I think the pitch was not easy for batting to do that.

00:19How do you plan for the first season?

00:24How do you plan for the first season?

00:29It is very difficult to plan against someone like Nicholas Puran.

00:33Obviously, we have had our plans.

00:35But the game was uncertain.

00:37That situation that we had to attack.

00:39But sometimes you have to just tell him well played.

00:44That's exactly how he batted.

00:46We have seen him every time.

00:48If he gets going, it is very difficult to stop.

00:53What went well and what made you do?

00:56The opening partnership was outstanding.

00:58There is no doubt about it.

01:00Both Shubman and Sai Sudarshan have been phenomenal for us throughout this season so far.

01:05I thought Prasit Krishna has been bowling well.

01:07Mohamed Siraj has been bowling well today.

01:09It wasn't his day.

01:10What we need to improve upon is fielding.

01:16I think that's something that can change the result of the game.

01:22We have seen that so far in this tournament.

01:24But yeah, I think fielding is something we definitely would try and improve on.

01:29What the fight runs in the game.

01:31If you are playing outside of the game, you are lefty and lefty, so what are the fight going on?

01:36What they play well?

01:38They play well and play well.

01:39The consistency of the format doesn't get easy to show in this format.

01:42What I do like by fighting and the shots are also playing like that.

01:48here all the six sitting here

01:49talks about the conventional touch

01:51you see that

01:53and the strike rate is high

01:54which means that you play low risk cricket

01:57and play very good strike rate

01:58so that's why you see consistency

02:01how do you see

02:14see obviously

02:15that's why you try to

02:45I thought he bowled well today, even the last game also, he was getting back into his form.

03:11Today also, Ro obviously, he was the one who got us back into the game.

03:16He has that ability, someone like him who is a proven cricketer for so many years, so

03:23I don't think it's a concern for us at all, it's just that it just takes a game and to

03:28me in the last couple of games, he is getting into his old the way he was bowling.

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