As Punjab Kings cruised to a nine-wicket win against the Mumbai Indians on Friday night, the Indian Premier League defending champions lo...
As Punjab Kings cruised to a nine-wicket win against the Mumbai Indians on Friday night, the Indian Premier League defending champions looked like a pale shadow of their dominant selves.
MI skipper Rohit Sharma struck a discordant note in the post-match chat, “Not enough runs, exactly. I still feel it’s not a bad wicket to bat on. You can see how Kings won with nine wickets in hand. If you get 150-160 you’re always in the game and that is something we’ve failed in the last two games, we need to look at that.
He added: “Ishan was tyring to hit but couldn’t get it, even myself. We were trying but the wicket wasn’t easy. In the last four games we really batted well in the powerplay but today we failed to do so. We’re missing batting all 20 overs the way we want to. Something we need to look at.”
Indeed, the contrast between MI we saw in IPL 2020 and the one we have seen thus far in IPL 2021 could not have been more jarring.
Last season, the MI batsmen were unstoppable as a unit. If Kieron Pollard didn’t get you, then Hardik Pandya would. If Hardik Pandya wouldn’t get you, then Ishan Kishan would. If Ishan Kishan wouldn’t get you,...
