Published: Sep 20, 2015, 09:32 PM (IST)
Edited: Sep 21, 2015, 08:33 AM (IST)
Surrey captain Gareth Batty hopes that his side’s six-run loss against Gloucestershire in the Royal One-Day Cup final will give his side the extra motivation to win the County Championship Division Two title next week. “If this can’t stoke the fires and get the fire in the belly to get over the line this week then I don’t understand the group. We will be down for a while, a few hours, and then we need to regroup quickly and turn our minds to what is a big game this week. We are not good losers, we will be gracious, but we won’t like it. The club is not about failure. We have to take this on the chin and move forward.” READ: Jade Dernbach’s hat-trick in vain as Gloucestershire beat Surrey in Royal London One-Day Cup 2015 final
Batty then reflected on Surrey’s loss in the final Batty said, “I think they maybe got a few too many runs, but I think 220 was gettable. There is nobody to blame, it is not a batters and a bowlers thing. I think if we are brutally honest, we changed format of how we went about it. I won the toss and bowled because of conditions. I take that on the chin, it is my responsibility that we lost a game of cricket,” according to ecb.co.uk.
“I am not going to stand here and criticise my boys. They have been nothing short of magnificent all season. I will take the hit on this one. If we had done it the other way round, I think the story may have been different. It is one of those things,” he added. Batty also spoke about the heroic effort of Jade Dernbach, who’s hat-trick was not good enough to take Surrey home. ” It is heart-wrenching for a bloke that is the only bloke I see in the country doing what he does,” Batty said. “He fronts up in the powerplay and fronts up at the back. I see other bowlers picking and choosing their times. He has proved he is the best at what he does in the country, 6-35 in a final and a hat-trick is heart-wrenching. Nobody deserves that,” he added.
