Mumbai Indians (MI) bowling coach Shane Bond rued his workforce’s abject bowling show throughout a 55-run defeat to the Gujarat Titans (GT) in an IPL 2023 match right here on the Narendra Modi Stadium on Tuesday.
MI suffered its second consecutive defeat and slipped to the seventh spot after as many video games, whereas the GT stormed to the second spot with its fifth win.
For a second recreation in a row, Rohit Sharma’s bowlers misplaced the plot within the demise overs after an honest opening with the ball. Last Saturday, MI conceded 96 runs within the final 5 overs towards Punjab Kings at residence to bowl the workforce backwards from a place of power.
The inexperienced assault equally allowed Gujarat’s middle-order firepower to tug the workforce from 101 for 4 to 207 for six – its highest IPL whole – with 107 runs stemming from the final seven overs.
“It was like a repeat from the last game. We’re not executing what we need to. We’ve got pretty simple plans. Watching the way we bowl, we’ll bowl in an area, get hit and then very quickly change. That’s a disappointing thing. I thought that with (GT) at 100, we were right in the game, and then we just dished up freebies. We gave (David) Miller and (Abhinav) Manohar free hits, and once you give good players a chance to get in, they just take the game away.
“We talk a lot about making batters work really hard for their runs. But when you look at our season, there’s been one player in the lower order, in particular, who we’ve fed runs to,” Bond stated as he mirrored on the loss in a post-match press convention.
While Mumbai was restricted to 152 for 9 with a medical bowling efficiency within the chase, Bond stated that it was crucial for his facet to have restricted Gujarat to 180 to have stood an opportunity.
“If we could keep them to 180, it was going to be challenging in the first six overs. But we thought we could chase it down much like at Wankhede the other day, but we can’t keep asking our batting line-up to chase 210 every game,” the Kiwi accepted.
Bond recommended the Titans’ bowling because it dismantled the cream of the MI batting inside the first ten overs. While skipper Hardik Pandya and Mohammed Shami managed the PowerPlay the place MI may solely muster 29 runs on the expense of Rohit, spinners Rashid Khan and Noor Ahmad scalped 5 wickets to derail the innings.
“We got an exhibition of how to bowl on that wicket in the first six overs, and the game was effectively over. We tried to ride the storm a little bit because the ball was moving around at a good pace. Hardik and Mohammed Shami didn’t give us any free balls to hit, so the score at the end of the PowerPlay was a reflection of the way they bowled
“Rashid came on, bowled back-of-a-length, and just gave us nothing to hit. They just executed things really well. We haven’t been able to put 10 overs together like that, even though we’ve been good in our first ten, but our last six, seven overs, in particular, have been pretty poor in the last couple of games,” Bond remarked.
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Rohit didn’t use Arjun Tendulkar within the demise overs, and the bowling coach urged the left-arm pacer’s 31-run over towards Punjab final week may have performed within the captain’s head. “It probably was a factor. And again, if you’re the captain, you bank on your experience at the back end. You rely on those international players to come in and get the job done. I think that’s what most captains do.”
Arjun completed with figures of 1/9 in two overs within the PowerPlay as MI’s abroad seam trio – Jason Behrendroff, Riley Meredith and Cameron Green – conceded 125 runs in 10 overs. Meredith, who changed an unwell Jofra Archer within the beginning XI was the costliest, leaking 12.25 runs per over.
Bond was unsure about Archer’s availability for Mumbai’s subsequent recreation towards the Rajasthan Royals on Sunday and stated the workforce will rework its methods over the subsequent three days. “I don’t know whether he (Archer) will be available for the next match in terms of changes or plans. We haven’t had any time to sort of digest (the losses). When you’re losing, the natural thing that happens is you consider the balance of your team,” Bond admitted.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com