After Sunrisers Hyderabad misplaced to Delhi Capitals in a Super Over within the IPL 2021 match in Chennai, captain David Warner stated it was a harsh choice by the crew’s selectors to drop Manish Pandey from the XI. SRH as soon as once more struggled of their center order, with younger Virat Singh particularly managing solely 4 off 14 balls. Chasing 160, SRH made 159 thanks to Kane Williamson’s unbeaten 66 to take the sport to a Super Over. However, SRH managed solely 7 within the Super Over which DC knocked off within the final ball.
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Pandey had scores of 61*, 38 and a couple of, however his strike price and selection of shot at unsuitable instances had been questioned. He was dropped as soon as Williamson got here to the aspect after damage.
“It depends on the selectors, it was a harsh call,” Warner stated on the submit-match presentation. “But at the end of the day it is a decision that they took and you cannot discredit Virat, he’s a very good player and the surface was difficult.
“Obviously Jonny at the top of the order and Kane taking it deep, we couldn’t bat well in the middle overs.”
Warner lauded his bowlers for bringing them again after Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan added 51 for no loss within the Power Play.
“It has been a tough one. The way our bowlers came back after the powerplay was fantastic,” he stated. “We knew on this surface if you got off to a flier it is always going to be tough in the middle, the bowlers executed well.
“I thought Vijay (Shankar), who is not one of our strike bowlers, bowled fantastically, could have bowled him an extra one, that’s the handiness of having him in the middle but the bowlers got us to a good total to chase.
“They bowled well in the middle and made it challenging for us.”
Warner was run out as soon as once more, second time within the match.
“If you hit the ball to a world class fielder, you are going to get run out 9 times out of 10,” he stated curtly.
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