Mumbai Indians’ loss towards Punjab Kings has baffled many consultants. It was not the loss although, however the ways which have come underneath query. MI misplaced Quinton de Kock early, and upon his dismissal Ishan Kishan was despatched. Suryakumar Yadav was demoted to no. 4. The results of all this was, Mumbai might solely rating 21 runs within the powerplay, one in all their worst performances ever.
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At one stage, they had been 49-1 of their 10 overs, and ultimately completed with 131-6 of their quota of overs. Both Virender Sehwag and Ajay Jadeja questioned the ways.
“The kind of form Suryakumar was in, he hit a fifty earlier, perhaps he could have taken more advantage of the powerplay. See, even he could’ve gotten out early but he had better chances.
“You are sending someone who hasn’t scored runs in 4 matches with hope that he will get you runs but you are demoting someone who has scored 2-3 out of your last 4 games. When 2-3 wickets fall quickly then there is pressure on that in-form player too.
“It would have been better had they sent Suryakumar early in the powerplay. He could have given the necessary momentum to the innings,” Sehwag instructed Cricbuzz.
“The only good thing for MI was that Rohit and Suryakumar batted till the 15-16th over. They thought their big-hitters would play fearless cricket in the backend of the innings but that didn’t happen,” Sehwag stated.
Jadeja too stated that SKY ought to have batted at his common place.
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“We were saying that MI are not playing well but they were scoring 150 at least but today they played well but got only 130. This was beyond me. You can play poorly, get out early but they came out today with their shutters closed, which is not their style of batting.
“If we lose 2-3 early wickets in the powerplay then it’s understandable but not in this case.
“Then you don’t send your in-form player Suryakumar Yadav at 3. Tell me, would you ask Virender Sehwag not to open and bat down the order?” he added.
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