Nathan McSweeney: Yeah, lucky the toss went my way and we batted first, and it seems, you know, if you can get a total around the 270-300 mark, it becomes very hard to score with the ball getting soft and the wicket getting a little bit slower. So in saying that, we probably left a few runs out there after our good start. So there’s, you know, there’s room for improvement. I thought our bowlers have been excellent, our pace bowlers in particular, the use of the short ball, and that’s been very effective. Yeah, I think the first game we didn’t start overly well, so it was important for those guys to set the tone early. You know, Mitch Owen didn’t quite get the big score that he would have liked, but the way he started just got the momentum going in our innings, and Sam and Josh were able to bat for a long period of time and rotate the strike really well, use their feet, you know, hit over cover really well. So yeah, we started really well. As I said, there’s room for improvement. We didn’t quite nail it at the back end. So, you know, the game coming up we’ll be trying to focus on that. Yeah, I think any sort of credit, if you hold on to your catches, it goes a long way to winning you games, and especially, you know, great players like their captain Gaikwad. Spencer’s catch that really changed the momentum of the game. Yeah, so it’s been excellent so far. We’ve got one more to go. Plenty of learning to playing over here, for a lot of us for the first time on one-day cricket. So hopefully we can finish off well.
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