Whenever India looses we get to hear statements from everyone everywhere, most importantly the loosing captain. The most common jargons we get to hear after a defeat are…

1. The bowlers did a pretty good job but we missed out on a few opportunities that came our way.
2. It was a close game but couldn’t get big partnerships going and lost wickets at crucial intervals. We need to collect ourselves and take the positives out of this game and play better in the next matches.
3. Yes, its pretty disappointing to loose a match, we tried our best and hope to perform better in the next match.
4. We got away to a good start but couldn’t consolidate and then let it get away from us.
5. I thought we played very well, our bowlers gave us crucial breakthroughs but I felt we were 20-30 runs short.
6. The boys have traveled and played too much cricket with quite a few injuries, but the innings by ‘xyz’ just took away the match from us.
7. It was a good pitch to bat on and put up a big score but I thought we conceded too many wides and no balls which costed us the match.
8. The pitch was doing a bit in the morning and all we needed to do is stay at the wicket but unfortunately it didn’t work for us this time.