Intro:

Afghanistan coach Andy Moles reflects on his side's record-breaking 275-run loss against Australia.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Andy Moles, Afghanistan coach (on the decision of his side to field first having won the toss)

"If I was to tell you, if Afghanistan were going to beat Australia today. If we had batted first and got 260, in all probability that wouldn't have been enough. As you saw. The only way we can beat Australia is to bowl first, bowl well which we did to start with today but do it for longer, and try and restrict them to somewhere near three hundred and then hopefully our stroke makers can have a good day and we can try and chase it down.

"I think we're all, as the associates are going to say, we need to play more cricket. We need to play games. The horrible truth is that is the truth. We need to play. How can you get used to playing against people bowling 150 plus especially on a surface (like this) What a great surface but it's got more pace and bounce than probably any other cricket wicket in the world probably. To play against that and get used to it, you have to play against it.

"We ran into a freight train today. We were out-skilled, obviously. Out-bullied, if you want to put it that way. They were exceptional and we came up short and we hold our hands up. We've got to get better, no excuses. We'll be working very hard between now and New Zealand. They have an exceptional bowling attack as well in (Tim) Southee and (Trent) Boult and backed up by the other guys and we have to make sure that we're ready for what we know is going to be a very tough examination."