The Titans’ spectacular bowling line-up ran right into a marauding Suryakumar Yadav on the Wankhede Stadium o n Friday, with solely leg spinner Rashid Khan (4/30) popping out unscathed.
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In the batting division as effectively, barring Khan, no different participant from Titans confirmed up. Khan smashed a 32-ball 79 to stave off an enormous defeat and a subsequent dent to the web run-rate. This reality was reiterated by captain Hardik Pandya in an interview.
“It felt like only Rashid Khan turned up from our team. He batted and bowled incredibly well. As a group overall we failed to perform. We didn’t have clear plans and the bowlers didn’t deliver,” Pandya mentioned.
The same mistake is what the Titans want to keep away from because the IPL enters the business finish. Pandya would really like his premier pacers Mohammad Shami and Mohit Sharma together with Noor Ahmad to fireplace on all cylinders.
The match towards the deflated Sunrisers, who solely have a mathematical likelihood of progressing, provides them a chance. A win on Monday would affirm Titans’ place within the playoffs for the second successive season.
The Sunrisers, in the meantime, have been let down by the Indian batters of their camp, and it means they’re watching a 3rd successive 12 months the place they have not made the playoffs.
None of the opening and center order batters – Mayank Agarwal, Anmolpreet Singh, Abhishek Agarwal and Rahul Tripathi – have set this season of the IPL on fireplace.
And it has compelled the South African duo of Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klassen to save lots of the blushes in virtually each match – one thing they’ve been in a position to do however at the price of offering the required acceleration the group requires within the center and demise overs. It has been right down to the extremely-talented Abdul Samad to supply the late innings impetus.
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The bowling, too, has lacked chew. Medium-pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar is a shadow of the swing bowler he was up to now, and T Natarajan additionally has not returned with the identical impact put up his harm. SRH’s spin division is just too depending on Mayank Markande, who has carried out pretty effectively however nothing extraordinary.
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Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com