Sikandar Raza: “[sum up the tournament?] Pretty much whatever could go wrong, went wrong. We lost a lot of our good players, we’ve had 8 replacements this season – I’m not saying the guys who came in weren’t good enough, they were good enough – but I felt like we probably deserve to be where we are because we’ve played cricket that doesn’t deserve to qualify. I know we took it to the last game with a slight hope of qualification, but the truth of the matter is the opposition has always played slightly smarter cricket than us, and we haven’t adjusted to the conditions. And we just keep coming up short. [new players?] The guys who stayed back, we’re used to the wickets and conditions. You cannot expect a new guy to come in after 5,6 games – or 4 games – and be a match winner, because he also needs time to adjust to these wickets. It’s not those flat wickets where people come and start scoring. I think 150 is probably a winning total on all the wickets we played on – and unfortunately we haven’t got 150. And for me that’s the most painful part. And every time we take the rate up to nines and 10s and we just haven’t closed it. [positives?] Harmeet has joined the squad and done really well, Adil has bowled really well. I think the whole bowling unit has been outstanding. In the middle there have been good innings from Abell, Rew, TKC, John…batters could be a bit more consistent but I thought the bowling unit held themselves pretty high. And more often than not we did make a game out of it.”
