Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav flopped in opposition to KKR© BCCI/Sportzpics
Former India opener Virender Sehwag slammed Mumbai Indians’ (MI) batting duo Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav for taking too lengthy to get set after which giving their wicket away with out making any important contribution within the IPL 2024 match in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders. In a rain affected encounter which was decreased to a 16 over recreation between the 2 historic powerhouses of the IPL on Saturday, Rohit scored 19 off 24 whereas managed to document 11 off 14 after MI began their chase of 158 strongly with Ishan Kishan giving the facet an excellent begin along with his 40 off 22 balls.
“Whoever bowls good, simply play him out. If two wickets hadn’t fallen, Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav may’ve completed the match an over earlier than. Vaibhav Arora, Mitchell Starc, Andre Russell and Harshit Rana needed to ball anyway; in the event that they performed out the spinners and did not lose the wickets, they might’ve received the sport. You may’t have an ego while you come out to bat. You play them out or punish the unfastened deliveries,” Sehwag mentioned on Cricbuzz.
Two early wickets within the first innings noticed the KKR battle early within the recreation. The Mumbai bowling assault faltered as the sport went on with Venkatesh Iyer being the primary man with the bat. Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh & Ramandeep Singh all supplied small but explosive contributions to take Kolkata’s rating to 157/7.
In response, Tilak Varma’s 32 runs off 17 balls went in useless as there have been no actual contributions by the center order with Hardik Pandya, Tim David and Nehal Wadhera all combining for 5 runs. Naman Dhir’s 17 runs off 6 balls gave the followers a glimmer of hope however it was not sufficient as MI solely managed to attain 139 within the chase.
“Naman Dhir got here proper on the finish and smashed two sixes and a 4; if Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav have been set at the moment, they might’ve hit 5 balls for boundaries. You could possibly be Rohit Sharma or Suryakumar Yadav, however no less than respect the supply if you cannot respect the bowler. The ball on which Rohit Sharma bought out wasn’t a weak ball. Little doubt Rohit and Suryakumar are nice gamers, however that does not imply it’s best to hit the nice deliveries, too,” concluded Sehwag.
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