Netherlands' Ryan Cook on their T20 World Cup defeat to Bangladesh

Ryan, a good performance by the Netherlands. You gave a really good fight at one stage, especially when the chase was on, it seemed that you're very much the favourites. I think the win percentage was heavily loaded towards you towards the back end of the innings. Maybe the Bangladesh experience and the quality of the bowling line up, that kind of came through. Tell us about the chase a bit. As I said earlier, it seemed that you were bossing it before unfortunately losing the plot a bit. Yeah, I think probably on that wicket, you know, assessing it, when both teams are battered, they've probably got a few too many runs there, a couple too many big overs. And this sort of led to a chase that was always going to be challenging, especially at the back end with some of the experienced bowlers, as you mentioned. Having said that, we put ourselves in a good position with a good partnership with Scott and and Cybrant and, you know, with 49 to win off the last five overs, we're confident that we'll be able to chase those down. Obviously I've been in the other dressing room when Mr. Fizz has been bowling those balls and watching guys string and miss. So to watch it from the other side now is is a bit tougher. But no, the guys will obviously take a lot of experience away from that and it is something that we prepared for, just weren't able to execute on the day. Generally, as you just mentioned, 49 of the last five hours, a lot of teams, a lot of everyone would perhaps be backing their batting team. That has been trend in T20 cricket over the years. Maybe the trend is quite not the same here. We have seen teams defending even runs which are maybe lower than like in terms of more balls and less runs. You get a lot of teams have prevailed. So perhaps the trend here is different. 8 to 10 runs if the ask is in the last 5-6 overs is perhaps not that straightforward. Absolutely. I've just been at the IPL where you know it's two runs a ball. It's kind of where you want to try and get it to as the bowling team. And you kind of feel even then that sometimes, you know, it's, it's you're under pressure in this tournament. It might be different in these conditions. It might be different as well. Yeah. But we set the run chase up pretty much exactly like we wanted to. We we thought we could probably get those runs off the last five overs. But, you know, credit to Fizz and and all the other bowlers who bowled really well, used the conditions well. And obviously us losing wickets never helped the momentum and and too many dot balls at the end on a wicket that has proven to be quite lively. Your bowlers when they bowl the short ball cause a bit of a problem. But then they went bowling the ball full and got whacked. Was it a case of being too anxious to prove a point or was it lack of experience? No, I don't think either. I think, you know, when we sort of go and do the debrief of that game, I think our plans were in place. You know, we do a lot of research and we're very prepared for each individual better that we come up against. And we would have known some of those plans. We didn't do some of those plans today. And unfortunately that wasn't down to execution. That's probably down to decision making. Yes, obviously we we want to try and execute the ball in the right place every single time. And you know, there is going to be times where you don't execute. The guys will probably be quite disappointed that the plans that we put in place weren't maybe gone to rather than sort of what we did out on the field there today. You're travelling to Saint Lucia for a game on the 16th on another fast, bouncy wicket. Will today's game prepare you for such a wicket? Yeah, I think all the wickets have been different in this tournament. So, you know, it's trying to assess and trying to adapt on each condition. We know sort of a little bit of the research around the ground and we'll speak to the locals in terms of what we need to prepare. We got a full squad of, you know, really skilled players who were able to adjust to any conditions. And we can play extra bowlers or extra spinners depending on what we need and obviously extra batters if required as well. So I think we are well set up to be balanced in that department. A lot can still have in this group. What are the thoughts on the game against Sri Lanka and what all to look forward to from a Netherlands perspective? Yeah, I think obviously there's there's a lot on the line. You know, we'll have to obviously take some net run rate into account now and be hoping for some other results to go our way. At the end of the day we can't control that. We just got to go and play a really good game of cricket against Sri Lanka. We'll take some real pride in the fact that we beat them in the warm up game and we've come close to them on on several occasions in the last year or so. So I think it'll be a good game of cricket between, you know, two very good teams and, you know, we've got to be putting our best foot forward. Final question, cricket coming to Saint Vincent after a very long time, nearly 1415 years. And we saw quite a few orange shirts in the crowd also. So overall, how was it to bring back international cricket being a catalyst for that and also the kind of support that you got here? I've been to the West Indies a few times, but I've never been here. And what a magnificent place Saint Vincent is, great people and you know, really hospitable. Be very generous with us. And you know, the, the, the conditions make for good cricket. So we are hopefully there'll be more cricket played here in the future. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you, everybody.