New Delhi: Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya credited his bowlers effectively using variations and executing the schemes smartly on a dull wicket, as his side won four wickets. Sunrisers Hyderabad In his IPL match at Wankhede Stadium on Thursday.
MI limited SRH to 162 to five and chased the target with 11 balls, which stood at 166 for six in 18.1 overs.
Pandya said in the post -match performance, “I think the way we bowled today were very smart and spot. We were clinging to simple basic plans. It was not easy to hit some balls. The bowlers were credited that we were squeezing them some good shots. We were squeezing them.”
The MI captain said the pitch offered some initial assistance, on which the bowlers captured.
“If you see it, there was a good green grass eye. First the couple bowled the lamp (four), got stuck in the pairs of balls. We decided to use the change of pace balls. As soon as we came to know, we try to mix it.
“We executed Yorker very cleverly.”
Will Jack was a standout artist for Mumbai, returning the impressive figures of 2/14 before scoring 36 off 26 balls to help his team his second direct win.
“This is the beauty of Jack. She can be a gun fielder. Bowling those guns. Today it stopped for her.
“When we needed 42 on 42 runs, it was difficult. We wanted to take our time.”
Meanwhile, SRH captain Pat Cummins admitted that his side decreased from a competitive clan on a challenging surface.
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“This was not the easiest wicket. Some runs decrease, we used to like something else with the bat. Tricky wickets, when you come here, you hope that it would really be fluent and faster, it was not that,” he said.
The MI bowlers were clinical as they had kept the SRH batting line-up in check, so that he was not allowed to free him in any stage of the innings.
Cummins said, “He really bowled well, shut down a lot of our hitting areas. I felt that we have all our grounds, with 160 you feel that you are a little younger.”
“We have given it a good rift with the ball. We felt that we needed a wicket, we had a lot of death bowling, we knew that the impact player would bowl 1-2 overs, that’s why we went with Rahul.”
For SRH, this was his fifth loss in seven matches this season.
He said, “You have got to play well from home to make a final, unfortunately this season has not been clicked yet, we have a short break and we go again,” he said.
“Every game we talk about assessing, the boys did well to get through the powerplay and was not careless, the next game is at home and we know that site very well.”
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