Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Mumbai Indians by two wickets within the opening match of IPL 2021 at MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai. With the loss, MI prolonged their dropping streak of their first matches in IPL; they’ve not received their first recreation since 2012.
Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma, although, regarded on the positives.
“That’s the most important thing I guess (to win championships), not the first game,” he mentioned on the put up-match presentation. “I thought it was a great effort.. great fight till the end. I thought we were 20 runs short with the kind of start we got. We made some mistakes in the first game, bound to happen.”
Rohit mentioned the losses within the first matches might probably be defined by the point taken to hit excessive depth.
“In hindsight you can say it takes time to get intensity. But there are fresh faces. Lot of players were playing international cricket and we have not had time to get to know each other very well,” he mentioned.
RCB saved MI to 159 earlier than getting there within the final ball, with AB de Villiers smashing 47 off 28 on a tricky batting pitch.
“Definitely not an easy pitch to bat on. We need to identify the situations and get variations. AB was brilliant and got them home,” Rohit mentioned.
The captain additionally mentioned Marco Jansen was somebody the crew has recognized as an all scenario bowler.
“He’s (Jansen) a talent we have identified to bowl in any situation. We wanted to get wickets when AB and Christian were batting, which is why we went with Bumrah and Boult, unfortunately it didn’t work.”
Rohit mentioned not enjoying in residence situations was a problem, however mentioned they’re lucky to be enjoying in these powerful occasions.
“It can be difficult for teams who have great home record but that’s the challenge of the sport.
“But we are fortunate enough to be able to be on the park and put some smiles on the faces of people in India. The country is going through tough times. Give them something to look forward to.”
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