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Porterfield: 'We move straight onto Zimbabwe'

Wednesday, March 04 2015 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    Reaction after South Africa crush Ireland by 201 runs in Canberra

    Script:

    SOUNDBITE: (English) William Porterfield, Ireland captain (on the challenge of facing a side like South Africa

    "I wouldn't say scary. I don't think anything is scary. But the way that they're playing, they're playing very well and a lot relies on them setting up a bit of a platform and, of course, Hashim (Amla) at the top of the order is a massive player for them. If they can bat around him, or not bat around him but if he sets the platform. It's not just a case of that but the way that he has gone about it. A lot of their big scores, he has scored a lot of the runs at the top and set the platform for everyone to come in down the back end. But to knock them back, you're going to have to take wickets and teams are going to have to do that against them to restrict them because the middle order can come in and strike it pretty cleanly."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) William Porterfield, Ireland captain (does this make the game with Zimbabwe as big a game as ever?)

    "every game, as I've said, every game is a two pointer for us and Hobart (the Zimbabwe game) is no different now. We've got to take what we can from this game and move forward to there and obviously two points is up for grabs and it's a pretty big two points for us.

    (Q: Is it make or break on Saturday, do you feel?)

    "I don't think it's make or break. I think every game, for ourselves, we've gone into it looking for the two points. We did against the West Indies, UAE and here again today and against Zimbabwe it's not going to be any different. Obviously if we pick up two points, then we're on six, and we move into the India game but we're going to prepare for Hobart as we have every other game and look at them and everything we need to do and improve on this game and keep doing the things that we were doing well."

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