Sunrisersareagreatdeal morethanjust DavidWarner
STRONG LINEUP Dhawan, Rashid Khan and Bhuvi are some real challengers in their dressing room IT IS A SUDDEN DEATH FOR BOTH TEAMS AND WE HAD ALREADY SUFFERED AT THEIR HANDS LAST SEASON.
suicide after suicide.
This was after we sent messages to the batsmen twice that there was no need to accelerate. All we needed was a partnership of about 70-80 runs and that will break the back of Mumbai’s total. Even during the first strategic break, Kallis and Katich both tried to impress upon the batsmen we don’t need to go aerial, just play risk-free cricket.
It becomes incomprehensible for me when I recall that in team meetings before that game we had made it clear we were going in one batsman short and the top 6 need to score the bulk of runs.
This meant that the chase should feature at least one proper batsman till at least 17-18 overs but look what we did. Post match our dressing room resembled a mourning place. I heard some boys were in tears. I sympathised with them, but we had only ourselves to blame.
Anyway, bygones need to be buried and I did that on the flight from Kolkata to Bangalore. Our next opponents, Sunrisers Hyderabad, are defending champions for a reason. They are a great deal more than David Warner. Shikhar Dhawan, Rashid Khan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are some real challengers in their dressing room. Let’s see if Yuvraj makes the cut.
I have a lot of time for the other Afghan, Mohammad Nabi. He’s quite good and has wonderful control in his off-spinners. It is a sudden death for both teams and we had already suffered at the hands of the same team last season.
In a way it is good there is lot of hurt in our dressing room. It can work as a catalyst but it all depends on the individual. You can either use these reverses as strengths or crib and cringe. I know what my team will be doing as none of us can afford another bad day in cricket as Mr Lara pointed out.