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Tim David (Player of the Match):"Happy to contribute to the team. The guys set the foundation, and I followed through. It's all about figuring out what strategy suits you in the game, taking a chance, and seeing how it goes."
Player of the Match: Tim David
Nicholas Pooran (MI Emirates Captain): "It's nice to be on the right side tonight. Yeah, as I said earlier, we were ready for the challenge. We know we had to tune our bodies to recover as fast as possible for today's game, but I'm really happy that the guys responded to the challenge we started.
We communicated really well. It was a challenging condition, the ball swung a lot. We felt like in Abu Dhabi if we can get ourselves to that last 10 overs with wickets in hand, then we have a chance of making up and scoring a lot in the back end.
No, I think I'm going to keep the wickets. I felt like I had to talk to the bowlers, but in saying that if I'm talking to the bowlers, I'm fielding at cover, so I'm basically wasting a fielding position, and Fletcher is quick, so we're going to utilize him in the outfield. Bravo and Bolty are there, and they are going to use the experience to talk to the bowlers as well.'
James Vince (Gulf Giants Captain): "We never quite got ahead in the game. I think in phases we did enough to be level, but with a few overs here and there, if they've gone the other way, I think we could have driven that game home.
I think we'll have a quick debrief and ahead of the next game, see where we can improve. But conditions here are completely different from what we came up with in our first game. So we've also got to look forward and make sure we're prepared for what's ahead."