{"id":172989,"date":"2026-05-27T01:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=172989"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:47:08","slug":"you-cant-win-games-if-you-cant-take-catches-says-gts-glenn-phillips-after-ipl-2026-qualifier-1-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=172989","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You can\u2019t win games if you can\u2019t take catches,\u2019 says GT\u2019s Glenn Phillips after IPL 2026 Qualifier 1 defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71027955\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Gujarat Titans batter Glenn Phillips admitted that scoreboard pressure and sloppy fielding hurt his side badly in the crushing 92-run defeat to Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL Qualifier 1, but insisted the team would quickly move on ahead of the Eliminator.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a daunting total after Rajat Patidar\u2019s explosive, unbeaten 93 powered RCB to 254 for five, GT crumbled to 162 all out as its top order failed to cope with the mounting pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, who did not feature in the match, said the target became increasingly difficult after RCB\u2019s early strikes with the ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c250 any day is a tough ask to chase without everything going your way. There\u2019s obviously a huge amount of scoreboard pressure when you\u2019re trying to chase 250 and very few teams have done it,\u201d Phillips said after the game on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went out there and gave it everything. Unfortunately, when you\u2019re trying to chase 250, everything has to go right and obviously it didn\u2019t,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips felt the surface itself was not impossible for batting despite the massive first-innings total.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt obviously produced plenty of runs for Rajat and a couple of the other boys in the RCB side. But as Rahul (Tewatia) showed as well, it was still good enough to bat on in the second innings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealander also pointed to Gujarat Titans\u2019 poor fielding effort, including a costly dropped chance of Patidar, as a decisive factor in the contest. He was on 20 then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially in playoff games, fielding becomes really crucial. You can bowl well and bat well, but if you field badly, you\u2019re still going to lose,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRajat made us pay big time today. You can\u2019t win games if you can\u2019t take catches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, however, said the issue was more about mindset than skill execution in the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s probably more of an attitudinal shift than anything else from a fielding perspective, making sure that we want the ball and want to do something special,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the heavy defeat, Phillips said GT is fortunate to have another opportunity through the playoff format and backed the side to recover quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes a loss like this is probably easier to get over. If you lose by one or two runs, you keep thinking about one moment here or there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when you get nowhere near, you can just go, \u2018we were just not on it today\u2019. That doesn\u2019t mean we won\u2019t be on it in the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips described the crushing defeat as part of the \u2018fickle nature\u2019 of T20 cricket, where collective off-days can snowball into a one-sided result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf each individual happens to have a bad day, that accumulates to one really bad day for the team. And that can easily switch around to every individual having a great day in the next game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>GT will now play the Qualifier 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 27, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-news\/rcb-vs-gt-ipl-2026-qualifier-1-gujarat-titans-dropped-catches-poor-fielding-glenn-phillips-press-conference\/article71027955.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat Titans batter Glenn Phillips admitted that scoreboard pressure and sloppy fielding hurt his side badly in the crushing 92-run defeat to Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL Qualifier 1, but insisted the team would quickly move on ahead of the Eliminator. Chasing a daunting total after Rajat Patidar\u2019s explosive, unbeaten 93 powered RCB to 254 &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018You can\u2019t win games if you can\u2019t take catches,\u2019 says GT\u2019s Glenn Phillips after IPL 2026 Qualifier 1 defeat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=172989\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018You can\u2019t win games if you can\u2019t take catches,\u2019 says GT\u2019s Glenn Phillips after IPL 2026 Qualifier 1 defeat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779864429_image202.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":174153,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=174153","url_meta":{"origin":172989,"position":0},"title":"GT vs RR Live Score, IPL 2026 Qualifier 2: Gujarat Titans 31\/0 (2); Gill, Sudharsan get chase underway","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"May 29, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Ashok Sharma, Jason Holder, Connor Esterhuizen, Kulwant Khejroliya,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sports","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?cat=9"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/India_IPL_Cricket_58195.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/India_IPL_Cricket_58195.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/India_IPL_Cricket_58195.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/India_IPL_Cricket_58195.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/India_IPL_Cricket_58195.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":174215,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=174215","url_meta":{"origin":172989,"position":1},"title":"Gill outshines Sooryavanshi to guide GT to IPL 2026 final &#8211; Cricbuzz","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"May 29, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Gill outshines Sooryavanshi to guide GT to IPL 2026 final\u00a0\u00a0CricbuzzGT vs RR, Qualifier 2, Indian Premier League 2026 - Commentary\u00a0\u00a0CricbuzzQualifier 2 (N), Indian Premier League at New Chandigarh, May 29 2026\u00a0\u00a0ESPNIPL 2026, GT vs RR Qualifier 2 Match Report, May 29, 2026 - Gill 104 trumps Sooryavanshi 96 as GT\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;National News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"National News","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/J6_coFbogxhRI9iM864NL_liGXvsQp2AupsKei7z0cNNfDvGUmWUy20nuUhkREQyrpY4bEeIBucs0-w300-rw.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":171799,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=171799","url_meta":{"origin":172989,"position":2},"title":"IPL 2026 Playoffs: All you need to know \u2014 full schedule, teams, timings, venues","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"May 24, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Kolkata Knight Riders\u2019 40-run defeat against Delhi Capitals at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on May 24 brought the IPL 2026 league phase to a conclusion with Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Gujarat Titans, Sunrisers Hyderabad, and Rajasthan Royals having been confirmed as the final four teams. 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