జట్టు వాతావరణం సరిగా లేదు: రసెల్

కోల్కతా నైట్రైడర్స్ ఆటగాడు రసెల్.. తమ జట్టు వరుస ఓటములపై స్పందించాడు. అనవసర తప్పిదాలు మ్యాచ్లను దూరం చేస్తున్నాయని తెలిపాడు.

Published : Apr 28, 2019, 6:20 AM IST

కోల్కతా వరుసగా 6 మ్యాచ్లు ఓడిపోవడంపై ఆ జట్టు సభ్యుడు రసెల్ స్పందించాడు. అనవసర తప్పిదాలే కొంపముంచుతున్నాయని చెప్పాడు. ఈ సీజన్ ప్రారంభంలో అద్భుతంగా రాణించిన రసెల్ 3 మ్యాన్ ఆఫ్ ది మ్యాచ్లు గెలుచుకున్నాడు. ఆ తర్వాత జట్టుతో పాటు అతను అంతగా ఆకట్టుకోలేకపోతున్నాడు.

"మా జట్టు బలంగా ఉంది. కానీ కొన్ని అనవసర తప్పిదాలు మ్యాచ్లను దూరం చేస్తున్నాయి. బౌలింగ్లోనూ మేం చేసిన పొరపాట్లే మా కొంపముంచుతున్నాయి. గెలవాల్సిన మ్యాచ్ల్ని చాలా తక్కువ తేడాతో ఓడిపోతున్నాం" -ఆండ్రీ రసెల్, కోల్కతా ఆల్రౌండర్

ప్రస్తుత సీజన్లో పది మ్యాచ్లాడిన ఈ కరీబియన్ ఆటగాడు 209.27 స్ట్రైక్ రేట్తో 406 పరుగులు చేశాడు.

"బలహీన బ్యాటింగ్ ఆర్డర్ కారణంగా రాజస్థాన్తో మ్యాచ్లో 176 పరుగులు లక్ష్యాన్ని ఛేదించలేకపోయాం. వారిని 170 పరుగుల లోపే కట్టడి చేయగలిగితే ముంబయి లాంటి బలమైన జట్లపైనా మా బౌలింగ్తో అద్భుతాలు చేయొచ్చు. వారు మేం బ్యాటింగ్లో ఇబ్బంది పడుతున్నామని చెప్పారు. కానీ అసలు సమస్య ఏంటంటే ప్రత్యర్థిని ఎక్కువ పరుగులు చేయకుండా ఆపలేకపోతున్నాం. ప్రస్తుతం తీవ్రంగా శ్రమిస్తున్నాం. రానున్న 3 మ్యాచ్ల్ని గెలిచితీరుతాం"
-ఆండ్రీ రసెల్, కోల్కతా ఆల్రౌండర్

"మా జట్టు బలంగా ఉంది. కానీ కొన్ని అనవసర తప్పిదాలు మ్యాచ్లను దూరం చేస్తున్నాయి. బౌలింగ్లోనూ మేం చేసిన పొరపాట్లే మా కొంపముంచుతున్నాయి. గెలవాల్సిన మ్యాచ్ల్ని చాలా తక్కువ తేడాతో ఓడిపోతున్నాం" -ఆండ్రీ రసెల్, కోల్కతా ఆల్రౌండర్

"బలహీన బ్యాటింగ్ ఆర్డర్ కారణంగా రాజస్థాన్తో మ్యాచ్లో 176 పరుగులు లక్ష్యాన్ని ఛేదించలేకపోయాం. వారిని 170 పరుగుల లోపే కట్టడి చేయగలిగితే ముంబయి లాంటి బలమైన జట్లపైనా మా బౌలింగ్తో అద్భుతాలు చేయొచ్చు. వారు మేం బ్యాటింగ్లో ఇబ్బంది పడుతున్నామని చెప్పారు. కానీ అసలు సమస్య ఏంటంటే ప్రత్యర్థిని ఎక్కువ పరుగులు చేయకుండా ఆపలేకపోతున్నాం. ప్రస్తుతం తీవ్రంగా శ్రమిస్తున్నాం. రానున్న 3 మ్యాచ్ల్ని గెలిచితీరుతాం"
-ఆండ్రీ రసెల్, కోల్కతా ఆల్రౌండర్

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FOX
1. Trailer clip : "Deep State" (season 2)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cape Town, 24 October 2018
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Parkhill, co-creator/writer/director:
"I remember waking up and hearing the news towards the end of last year, sort of October time, about the four U.S. special forces who died in Niger. And the sort of reaction was, 'What were the U.S. doing in Niger?' You know, and I started reading about it and reading the circumstances about their deaths and it just started inspiring ideas. I always like to try and find a kernel of reality, my jumping off point is always something that has happened. You know, I read a lot. I listen to, I consume a lot of news. I'm always interested in things that have happened and building stories from there."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cape Town, 25 October 2018
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Dempsie, actor:
"You know, we're living in a world where truth is increasingly hard to pin down and it's incredibly hard to know where to look for it. And I think an inevitable result of that sometimes is that conspiracy theory becomes mainstream and becomes quite accepted. And I think that actually so many of the more wild conspiracy theories don't help. It doesn't help things because it makes anything believable or, or disprove... or disbelieveable, at the same time. And as Karima just mentioned, Matthew's not, Matthew doesn't deal in conspiracy theories. This is in some ways, you know, you might watch the show and then open a newspaper and read something that sounds very similar or kind of eerily similar. The reality is a lot of this stuff has happened."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cape Town, 24 October 2018
4. Medium of crew on set
5. Medium of Matthew Parkhill on set
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Walton Goggins, actor:
"This particular season is about a region of the world that I really didn't know that much about even though I've spent time in the Sahara. I didn't understand kind of the global forces that had conspired in this part of the world and the series of events that happened in the world to lead to what has transpired over the last even five years in this part of the world. And there is an education that takes place and in any great television show, in any great narrative that's loosely based on some form of reality, right? And I think that was one of the greatest kind of takeaways for me in season, season one of this show is, you know, how this this, this idea of how the world does work on some level, you know. And I think he's done the same thing with season two."
FOX
7. TV Clip : "Deep State" (season 2)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cape Town, 25 October 2018
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Karima McAdams, actress:
"Most of the female roles I had been reading set in the same world didn't feel fleshed out enough. They felt like these women were just kind of plonked there to represent the world, whereas Matthew has made Leyla have one foot on either side of the coin. So allowing her to have a struggle between both worlds and also making her incredibly strong and making her stand at the forefront with the boys. And it doesn't mean that she's this kind of bionic woman, she's full of emotion and life and it's just that she, she handles it just like her colleagues do, you know."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Anastasia Griffith, actress:
"In terms of Amanda Jones, I really… I really hated her, actually. I really hated her and I did wonder, you know, 'How do I how do I bring life to this woman? how do I…?' We're always told as actors you need to love your character, you need to see from their perspective, you need to be able to empathize, or at least inhabit it, so that you understand the choices they made. And I really struggled. So eventually I just had to put all of the script aside apart from my scenes and just focus on what, on the journey that Amanda had and to then try and understand, which I think is actually a really important lesson, how the other half think and Amanda represents politics that I'm not, that I'm not particularly party to. She believes in America as a Big Brother state and she believes that democracy needs to be saved and imposed in any possible way."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cape Town, 24 October 2018
10. Medium of Alistair Petrie on set
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cape Town, 25 October 2018
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alistair Petrie, actor:
"The first thing as an actor you always look at is when you get sent anything is the writing. And usually you can tell pretty quickly, you can read two or three pages and in fact I received the scripts as I was waiting to go in and watch a play in London and my phone went ping and it was my agent saying, 'There's a show 'Deep State,' have a read and let me know what you think.' And this was 15 minutes before the curtain came, was about to go up, so sitting in my chair and I went, 'Well I'll have a quick look.' And I got about four pages into reading this script that Matthew had written and the lights went down and I actually loudly swore because I actually wanted to carry on reading and I thought, 'I'm going to be that irritating person sitting in a theatre with a bright light beaming out reading like I'm a teenager on Instagram.' And so I watched the first half of this play slightly raging and resentful, wanting the interval to come so I could carry on reading but that was emblematic of three or four pages in, just going, 'I'm in.'"
FOX
12. Trailer clip : "Deep State" (season 2)
STORYLINE:
SPY THRILLER 'DEEP STATE' RETURNS FOR SEASON TWO
Espionage thriller series "Deep State" is set to return with a new story of spies, lies and political skullduggery.
Season One of the Fox TV thriller focused on former MI6 agent Max Easton, played by Mark Strong, who is forced out of retirement to uncover a mole embedded in U.S. and U.K. spy network.
After last season's dramatic climax, the second season, which was shot in Cape Town, South Africa, introduces a new central character – ex-CIA agent Nathan Miller.
Miller, played by Walton Goggins, now works in the private sector, using his knowledge of the security services and extensive contacts to help the "deep state" achieve its political aims.
With the Middle East becoming increasingly chaotic, Miller's employers turn their attention to Sub-Saharan Africa, seeing an opportunity to plunder the region's natural resources.
"This particular season is about a region of the world that I really didn't know that much about even though I've spent time in the Sahara," says Goggins, speaking on set during a short break from filming.
"I didn't understand kind of the global forces that had conspired in this part of the world and the series of events that happened in the world to lead to what has transpired over the last even five years in this part of the world."
Goggins, who starred in Quentin Tarantino's 2015 Western "Hateful Eight," also serves as executive producer for "Deep State" Season Two.
"I think that was one of the greatest kind of takeaways for me in season, season one of the show is… this idea of how the world does work on some level. And I think he's done the same thing with season two."
The series' co-creator and showrunner Matthew Parkhill says that despite its sensational storylines, the show's complex web of espionage, political intrigue, and personal drama is rooted in reality.
"I remember waking up and hearing the news towards the end of last year, sort of October time, about the four U.S. special forces who died in Niger. And the sort of reaction was, 'what were the U.S. doing in Niger?'"
On 4 October 2017, four U.S. Special Operations taskforce members died in Tongo Tongo, Niger, after being ambushed by militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara.
"I started reading about it and reading the circumstances about their deaths," Parkhill continues, "and it just started inspiring ideas. I always like to try and find a kernel of reality, my jumping off point is always something that has happened. You know, I read a lot. I listen to, I consume a lot of news. I'm always interested in things that have happened and building stories from there."
"We're living in a world where truth is increasingly hard to pin down," says returning cast member Joe Dempsie, who plays a British agent. "You might watch the show and then open a newspaper and read something that sounds very similar or kind of eerily similar. The reality is a lot of this stuff has happened."
The strength of Parkhill's writing – especially the three-dimensionality of his female characters – was what drew actress Karima McAdams to the show.
"Most of the female roles I had been reading set in the same world didn't feel fleshed out enough," says the actress, who stars as Leyla Toumi. "They felt like these women were just kind of plonked there to represent the world, whereas Matthew has made Leyla have one foot on either side of the coin. So allowing her to have a struggle between both worlds and also making her incredibly strong and making her stand at the forefront with the boys."
Anastasia Griffith, who plays shady CIA operative Amanda Jones, also had a strong reaction to her character – albeit a negative one.
"I really hated her, actually. I really hated her and I did wonder, you know, 'How do I how do I bring life to this woman?' We're always told as actors you need to love your character, you need to see from their perspective, you need to be able to empathize, or at least inhabit it, so that you understand the choices they made. And I really struggled."
But Griffith says trying to understand her character's motivations was "actually a really important lesson."
"She believes in America as a Big Brother state and she believes that democracy needs to be saved and imposed in any possible way."
Season two of "Deep State" premieres on FOX on April 28.

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