Mumbai, March 5 -- With their Ranji Trophy ambitions having sunk due to loss in the semi-final, Tamil Nadu head coach Sulkashan Kulkarni has expressed his differences with the team captain R Sai Kishore's decision to bat first and said they lost the match at "9 o'clock on day one".

"I always speak straightforward - we lost the match at 9 o'clock on day one. The moment I saw the wicket I exactly knew what we were going to get," Kulkarni said after the match, according to ESPNcricinfo.

The 57-year-old head coach said he is from Mumbai and he knew the conditions well but the team skipper had different plans.

"Everything was set, we won the toss, as a coach, as a Mumbaikar, I know the conditions well. We should have bowled but the captain ...