Dan Mousley, with a couple of brilliant caught-and-bowled dismissals brought MI Emirates back firmly in the game. But with the dew coming down, it was always going to be hard work restricting the batters in the second innings. He talks about the conditions and the total that MIE posted in the post-match press interview. Excerpts..

On the total at the halfway stage

It was one of those games where we were I thought 10-15 runs below par. For a bowling group, you have to scrap as much as you can. Zaman played beautifully with the bat and Sam Curran also had a really good knock. For us it was just about taking it as deep as we could with both bat and ball and see how it ended up. It finished in the last over and we took it as deep as possible. 

Thoughts on how the conditions changed in the second innings 

It’s one of those with the dew. It comes down and makes the wicket a lot better. We got just 160 when we could have gotten 170-175. We actually bowled pretty well with the ball. 

On being a player from England playing in the ILT20

I love coming here. It is my third year in this competition and we have a great bunch of lads in the dressing room. It’s nice to get away from England with the cold weather. It’s a great competition with international superstars and we love coming here. 

On what dew does to bowlers

Almost does less when the dew comes down. The ball stops doing anything and comes on nicely. Batting second today looked easy. Some of the shots they were playing were a little bit easy with dew on the wicket.