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India will bounce back with intensity: Wright
"We had a wake-up call the other night, it was a disappointing performance. We'll start from scratch, and I expect more hunger," the Indian coach said.
India will bounce back with greater intensity after its Asia Cup preliminary league loss to Sri Lanka, coach John Wright said on Tuesday.
"We had a wake-up call the other night, it was a disappointing performance," Wright said of Sunday's 12-run loss.
The result left the four-time Asia Cup winner and 2003 World Cup finalist in second spot in Group B.
"We'll start from scratch, and I expect a hungry performance," Wright told reporters ahead of India's super league round match against Bangladesh on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka will play defending champion Pakistan.
No points are being carried forward from the first round league matches to the super league. The top two teams in the second round will meet in the August 1 title contest.
Wright said winning and losing was part of the game, but he "wasn't happy with the lack of intensity in India's performance."
"There was no urgency and intensity in our performance, which is disappointing when we are trying to move on as a side," Wright said.
The coach said he was confident India would bounce back strongly.
"The good thing is that we've overcome these things before. If we go back to the World Cup, we had a big loss against Australia, but then turned the situation around," he said.
Wright said during India's historic first full tour of Pakistan in 14 years, the team got an early wake up call when it lost to Pakistan A in a one-day practice game in March.
"We got a big fright against Pakistan A when they clouted us all over the field," he said.
India bounced back to clinch the limited-over series 3-2 — it's first one-day series victory in Pakistan.
The Indians also went on to score their first-ever Test series victory by prevailing 2-1. That marked India's maiden Test series triumph on Pakistan soil in five decades.
