Match Feedback Joe Chemmanam - Dec 26 2009

My take on the match .. mostly it will be criticisms ..but that's what
will help us improve .. i will take a printout of this ..and will
discuss with each one of u during Monday practice...

Joe:5-39/2
Anish:4-48/1
Sajad:5-33/0
Prasanth:4-27/3
Hafiz:1-18/0
Raju:2-42/0

Razzaq: 36(24)
Anish: 68(43)
Ziya:37


Fielding

Fielding has definitely improved but i would say we fielded to 65-70%
of our potential.

Presence of mind,Anticipating Shots and thereby moving early, Not
backing up throws. Have to sit down with ur body behind the ball when
u field especially at the boundary

Long on, long off, Third man and Fine leg standing half way and not on
the boundary line... these are unpardonable mistakes ..and no captain
can keep on reminding u to stay at the ropes in these positions.. The
only ppl who can stay a bit inside the ropes are square leg and deep
point coz u expect a top edge at square leg and u dont expect a
batsmen to hit over point for 6.

Another issue seen yesterday was the amount of nervousness. Everyone
should speak and encourage the bowler/fielders and discourage the
batsmen in between deliveries. Yesterday, what was happening was
..there were some encouragements in between deliveries but the biggest
noise was when someone was going to field ..everyone gets so nervous
and starts shouting.. throw here throw there ..u are just putting
pressure on the fielders by doing that. max u have to do is to tell
the fielder which side to throw . this should be done by the keeper ..
and whether the fielder can take it easy or he needs to rush ..again
only by the keeper ...

Bowling

Everyone bowled decently. There will be matches where ppl will get hit
..that is bound to happen .. Only concern i had was we didn't plan the
overs well and somehow had to bowl Razzaq somewhere in the middle
overs .. but these things do happen ... but a little bit of planning
might have saved us some runs..

Joe: Didnt bowl as well as he could .. took some time to understand
the batsman's weakness. Thanks to Raju and Prasanth for pointing it
out .. but if u guys had indentified it early ..please do come and
talk to the bowler and tell him that .

Anish: Have to learn to bowl shorter balls .. otherwise did a decent job ...

Sajad: bowled brillantly .. Brought up back into the match .. first
ball was a long hop ..but from then was too good ...

Hafiz: dont know what happened ..its true that i myself had told him
to give flight in the practise sessions ..but the length should be
such that the batsmen has to come out and take huge risk to hit u ..
the 2 sixes were too full and anyone would have hit it ...

Prashanth: bowled really well .. have to practice bowling a lot more
during practice

Prashanth (wk): kept very well .. can talk to the bowlers more... and
should practice his leg spinners more ..

Batting

openers did a great job ..anish was brilliant ..Razzaq started off
slowly but started hitting well .. I would have loved if Razzaq had
stayed a bit more ..someone who is playing well have to stay .. Razzaq
.. take this as a challenge ...what was really nice to see was the way
these 2 ran between wickets ..credit goes to anish who made razzaq
also run .. but 2 points here ..
a) Razzaq ..please start calling ..plus please ground ur bat when u run ..
b) Anish.. well run ..well played ..its not nice to criticize someone
who played so well ..but u could have saved a bit of energy by just
walking some of those singles where u were sure there is no chance of
a 2nd .. i believe that anish finally got out because of tiredness
...could have asked for a runner ..

At this stage ..i think we could have send in a hitter as anish was
playing well and we could have just killed the opposition there ...
maybe myself or hafiz could have been tried ..but again ..its another
case of "if" ..it could have backfired as well

Raju: hard luck ..those things happen ...
Prashant Police: he knows his mistake ... he is a senior batsman ..and
he and raju was supposed to stay and play a long innings ... i am sure
he wont repeat this ..
Joe: wanted to stay till the end ..but i would lack of practice
against decent spin bowling did me in .. again sorry for not playing a
decent long innings..

Sajad: again .. its difficult to complain ..but i would say that u
have to show a bit more patience .. if u had stayed till the end ..we
would have won the match ,....choose the bowler to hit ..and try less
riskier methods first ...

Ziya: if u see his innings from a scorecard point of view ..he has
done a great job ..but from the match perspective it was sad .. .. has
to improve his running between wickets and attitude a lot .. no
backing up at the runners crease ..no communication with partner etc
... u have so much of talent ... its sad seeing u waste it ...have to
practice running between wickets and playing against the short ball...

hafiz: played a blinder of an innings ..well played .. hats off to u
.. tried his best ...

Fawaz: had to rotate strike or hit out ... fitness is a big worry ...
there was always 2 runs in that shot ... but again came out at the
last stage and its always tough ...

special mention to our 12th man ..did an awesome job .. just was a bit
confused with the field settings ..but will get used to it .. we are
looking forward to the day when u will be in the playing 11.. u
definitely have talent and its just a matter of practicing.. that day
is not far at all...

Overall .. we needed decent partnerships after the 1st one .. they
maintained a scoring rate of 11 run per over without doing anything
silly ..but most ppl after that ..tried to hit big ones when again the
asking rate was only 11 ... its as easy to score the first 100 as the
last 100 ..the only difference is in the mind .. dont put pressure on
urself while chasing ..just take it easy ...