Winless, but optimist Roy picks on positives
Kolkata, Jan. 21: Without a win but not short of either confidence or optimism, English opener Jason Roy today said his team is looking at the ongoing limited-overs ODI series against India as a stepping stone towards the Champions Trophy later this year.
“Of course you want to finish the series on a high but every game from now on till the Champions Trophy is going to be stepping blocks for us going into that huge competition,” Roy said ahead of the third and final ODI here tomorrow.
Counting on the positives, he said: “We’ve got a huge amount of positives to take from the last few games. Although we got outplayed, we have put in some seriously good performances. We’ve scored 350 in the first game and 366 in the second. Those are positives to come out of that are amazing.”
But each time they fell short and Roy said they were outdone by some outstanding individual performances in the Indian team.
“On both occasions I needed to stay in and get big hundreds. I should have done that, that was the plan. It didn’t work out that way but like I said our batting unit got us to 350 and 370,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with the team. We’re training very hard and having a good time. But like I said before, we’ve been undone by some incredible individual performances. We’re a confident side and whatever we come up against, we’re pretty confident. So we’ll be alright,” he added.