NAVI MUMBAI: Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Heather Knight on Tuesday admitted that it was robust for her aspect to show issues round after 5 straight losses initially of the occasion, which dominated the Smriti Mandhana-led aspect out of the knock-out reckoning of the inaugural Women’s Premier League.
RCB suffered their sixth defeat out of eight matches on Tuesday in opposition to Mumbai Indians by 4 wickets right here on the DY Patil Stadium right here, ending with simply 4 factors within the inaugural WPL.
“We did not start particularly well and sometimes in quick competitions like these it is hard to turn it around and change the momentum,” Knight instructed the media after RCB’s final match.
“We looked at all things closely and were able to turn things around a little bit too late and we had some momentum but last night we found out that we could not qualify. That is cricket, sometimes it does not go your way,” she added.
Knight mentioned the group actually got here collectively in opposition to adversity and did higher within the second half of the league stage.
“The first five games were really disappointing. The fact that we stuck together quite well and we were able to turn things around in the last two games knowing that we could not qualify, it was disappointing for the start of the season that we had.
“We began to construct as a group, began to grasp our roles just a little bit extra and began to execute higher and gel as a group.”
Knight admitted there was very little room for RCB’s turnaround in a quick competition and there was not much time for reflection.
“Not but, issues have occurred fairly shortly. We did plenty of reflecting after three or 4 losses and if you end up in such a state of affairs you try to discover a technique to flip it round. We haven’t executed in addition to we might have appreciated to,” she said.
While plenty of bowlers from other teams have taken wickets in double digits, RCB’s most successful bowler was the uncapped Shreyanka Patil with six wickets.
Knight said bowlers failure at the start of the tournament was one of the reasons for the team’s failure.
“The wickets had been excellent, initially you had a little or no margin of error and the truth that we didn’t take as many wickets as we might have appreciated. On pitches like that you should take wickets and be aggressive to decelerate the run price,” she said.
“As a bunch you get fairly excessive and fairly low shortly – that’s one thing I’ve discovered on this competitors and attempting to remain extra levelled and attempting to struggle onerous when issues don’t go your approach if you end up taking part in on superb wickets with actually brief boundaries,” Knight added.
The incumbent England skipper backed under-fire Mandhana, the costliest player in WPL, who had a poor run with the bat, to come back stronger.
“The development that we’ll see within the coming months and years (is that) will probably be a extremely good studying for her (Mandhana). It has been actually robust, the quantity of stress she has been in is admittedly loopy,” Knight said.
“Even as England captain, the stress she is in is a lot extra, the quantity of individuals keen on seeing how she does, how she performs and the way she captains is simply one other degree over right here. I do know what it’s like if you end up the captain and never scoring runs and you aren’t punching your weight. “For me those periods have taught me about myself and how I want to do things, how I want to be consistent as captain. (How) you play is how you want the team to play and we will certainly see a stronger Smriti coming back. When she combines her captaincy with her batting she will be very hard to beat,” she added.
Mumbai Indians’ Nat Sciver-Brunt, in the meantime, mentioned that shortly adapting to pitches within the knockout stage shall be essential.
RCB suffered their sixth defeat out of eight matches on Tuesday in opposition to Mumbai Indians by 4 wickets right here on the DY Patil Stadium right here, ending with simply 4 factors within the inaugural WPL.
“We did not start particularly well and sometimes in quick competitions like these it is hard to turn it around and change the momentum,” Knight instructed the media after RCB’s final match.
“We looked at all things closely and were able to turn things around a little bit too late and we had some momentum but last night we found out that we could not qualify. That is cricket, sometimes it does not go your way,” she added.
Knight mentioned the group actually got here collectively in opposition to adversity and did higher within the second half of the league stage.
“The first five games were really disappointing. The fact that we stuck together quite well and we were able to turn things around in the last two games knowing that we could not qualify, it was disappointing for the start of the season that we had.
“We began to construct as a group, began to grasp our roles just a little bit extra and began to execute higher and gel as a group.”
Knight admitted there was very little room for RCB’s turnaround in a quick competition and there was not much time for reflection.
“Not but, issues have occurred fairly shortly. We did plenty of reflecting after three or 4 losses and if you end up in such a state of affairs you try to discover a technique to flip it round. We haven’t executed in addition to we might have appreciated to,” she said.
While plenty of bowlers from other teams have taken wickets in double digits, RCB’s most successful bowler was the uncapped Shreyanka Patil with six wickets.
Knight said bowlers failure at the start of the tournament was one of the reasons for the team’s failure.
“The wickets had been excellent, initially you had a little or no margin of error and the truth that we didn’t take as many wickets as we might have appreciated. On pitches like that you should take wickets and be aggressive to decelerate the run price,” she said.
“As a bunch you get fairly excessive and fairly low shortly – that’s one thing I’ve discovered on this competitors and attempting to remain extra levelled and attempting to struggle onerous when issues don’t go your approach if you end up taking part in on superb wickets with actually brief boundaries,” Knight added.
The incumbent England skipper backed under-fire Mandhana, the costliest player in WPL, who had a poor run with the bat, to come back stronger.
“The development that we’ll see within the coming months and years (is that) will probably be a extremely good studying for her (Mandhana). It has been actually robust, the quantity of stress she has been in is admittedly loopy,” Knight said.
“Even as England captain, the stress she is in is a lot extra, the quantity of individuals keen on seeing how she does, how she performs and the way she captains is simply one other degree over right here. I do know what it’s like if you end up the captain and never scoring runs and you aren’t punching your weight. “For me those periods have taught me about myself and how I want to do things, how I want to be consistent as captain. (How) you play is how you want the team to play and we will certainly see a stronger Smriti coming back. When she combines her captaincy with her batting she will be very hard to beat,” she added.
Mumbai Indians’ Nat Sciver-Brunt, in the meantime, mentioned that shortly adapting to pitches within the knockout stage shall be essential.
“The wickets at the start were really good for batting, not lot of margin for bowlers but it sort of turned. The wicket last night (Monday, ) was not as bad as we were making it look to be and today was not too bad. We will see the wicket when we turn up,” she mentioned.
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