Sunrisers Hyderabad middle order is a work in progress: Brian Lara | Cricket News – Act Daily News

HYDERABAD: After back-to-back victories, Sunrisers Hyderabad had been seeking to construct on the momentum of their dwelling recreation in opposition to Mumbai Indians on Tuesday however faltered in key moments of the sport to lose by 14 runs on the RGIC Stadium.
Head coach Brian Lara felt that there was not a lot fallacious with the strategy of his gamers as they had been undone by a greater staff on the day. “Both Mumbai Indians and us were coming off back-to-back victories, so we knew they were picking up some momentum and I felt that today, they played better cricket and came out on top. We were up against a better team,” the West Indian legend mentioned after the match.
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Lara, nonetheless, felt that there was some work to be finished within the middle-order and added that it was a piece in progress. “It’s (middle-order) a work in progress. We need to have guys who are thinking to take the game till the end. There are some great examples in IPL like (Rahul) Tewatia, (David) Miller etc. We do need that sort of person to understand how to calculate, who are the bowlers still to come and plan properly. We have been working on that a lot but we weren’t the better team today. We have to accept that,” he said.

Lara said losing wickets in the powerplay always sets a team back. ” I believe we bowled fairly nicely within the powerplay. I don’t see an issue in that space. First of all, they misplaced their first wicket (Rohit Sharma) within the fifth over or so and we misplaced ours within the second over. Losing wickets all the time units you again. The couple of victories we had in opposition to KKR and Punjab Kings, we had an opener batting via. Doesn’t matter how deep you bat, you need to be sure the correct batters are getting the chance to attain runs and we did not take that chance on this match,” the southpaw said.

“We gave the impression to be shedding too many wickets within the powerplay all through the 5 video games we’ve performed. That means you might be all the time attempting to play catch-up, attempting to consolidate the state of affairs to get higher. We should enhance in that space,” he added.
The coach felt that SRH were always in the game but lost too many wickets to get a grip on the chase. “We felt that we had been all the time within the recreation. I believe the pitch was 175-180 pitch. It spun and was slightly bit sluggish off the deck. To get 190 was a good rating from Mumbai. We form of tried to remain within the recreation all through, however we misplaced wickets constantly via our chase. It slowed us down,” the 53-year-old mentioned.