NEW DELHI: Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma on Wednesday expressed his sadness after the five-time champions suffered an embarrassing 55-run defeat by the hands of Gujarat Titans.
A couple of days after their bowlers went for 96 runs within the final 5 overs towards Punjab Kings, MI struggled once more on the demise, towards the protecting champions. MI conceded 70 runs within the final 4 overs of Gujarat Titans’ innings.
“It’s a little disappointing. We pretty much had control of the game till the last few overs when we went for too many runs. It’s just about execution,” Rohit mentioned on the post-match presentation rite.
“We need to execute what’s right, who are the batsmen, those kind of things. But in the end we didn’t do that and gave too many runs. You’ve got to look at every team has very different strengths. We have a strong batting lineup to achieve the target.
“Today our batting could not get going. There’s numerous dew as neatly so if we had batted neatly then perhaps we’d have chased it. But we did not get started neatly and you do not do this if you find yourself chasing 200 -Plus.”
Set a stiff target of 208, MI were stopped at 152 for nine in the stipulated 20 overs.
winning captain Hardik Pandya was delighted with the result and said he always backs his instinct while leading the side.
“In captaincy I take the decision within the second relatively than pre-planned. Captaincy is one thing the place I simply at all times jump on my intuition. Me and Ashu Pa (trainer Ashish Nehra) have an excessively an identical mindset and 99 in keeping with cent of the days we go back our calls and they’re an identical calls.
“Today bowling Rashid and Noor we knew we can take off pace against batters like Green and David who like pace on the ball,” he mentioned.
On Abhinav Manohar, who blazed away to 42 off 21 balls, Hardik mentioned, “It’s pure hard work, the amount of balls he hits in the nets and credits to the support staff as well.
“Last yr we spoke to him and this yr to this point he has been hitting it the most productive within the staff. We are more than happy and taking a look ahead to extra innings like that.”
A couple of days after their bowlers went for 96 runs within the final 5 overs towards Punjab Kings, MI struggled once more on the demise, towards the protecting champions. MI conceded 70 runs within the final 4 overs of Gujarat Titans’ innings.
“It’s a little disappointing. We pretty much had control of the game till the last few overs when we went for too many runs. It’s just about execution,” Rohit mentioned on the post-match presentation rite.
“We need to execute what’s right, who are the batsmen, those kind of things. But in the end we didn’t do that and gave too many runs. You’ve got to look at every team has very different strengths. We have a strong batting lineup to achieve the target.
“Today our batting could not get going. There’s numerous dew as neatly so if we had batted neatly then perhaps we’d have chased it. But we did not get started neatly and you do not do this if you find yourself chasing 200 -Plus.”
Set a stiff target of 208, MI were stopped at 152 for nine in the stipulated 20 overs.
winning captain Hardik Pandya was delighted with the result and said he always backs his instinct while leading the side.
“In captaincy I take the decision within the second relatively than pre-planned. Captaincy is one thing the place I simply at all times jump on my intuition. Me and Ashu Pa (trainer Ashish Nehra) have an excessively an identical mindset and 99 in keeping with cent of the days we go back our calls and they’re an identical calls.
“Today bowling Rashid and Noor we knew we can take off pace against batters like Green and David who like pace on the ball,” he mentioned.
On Abhinav Manohar, who blazed away to 42 off 21 balls, Hardik mentioned, “It’s pure hard work, the amount of balls he hits in the nets and credits to the support staff as well.
“Last yr we spoke to him and this yr to this point he has been hitting it the most productive within the staff. We are more than happy and taking a look ahead to extra innings like that.”
(With inputs from PTI)