Mumbai Indians, captained by Hardik Pandya, were defeated by Delhi Capitals by 10 runs on Saturday.
Mumbai Indians, captained by Hardik Pandya, were defeated by Delhi Capitals by 10 runs on Saturday. With this defeat, Mumbai has suffered its sixth defeat of the season. With this average performance, Mumbai is at ninth position this season. Now Hardik Pandya has told why Mumbai team lost the match against Delhi Capitals?
Batting first, Delhi scored 257 runs for 4 wickets. The top-4 batsmen of Delhi batted brilliantly. Jake Fraser scored 84 runs, Abhishek Porel scored 36 runs, Shai Hope scored 41 runs and Tristan Stubbs scored 48 runs to help the team score a big score.
However, Mumbai had a good start to chase the target given by Delhi. The team lost the wickets of Rohit Sharma (8), Ishan Kishan (20), Suryakumar Yadav (26) cheaply in the powerplay. Tilak Verma played a brilliant inning of 63 runs while Pandya also played a good inning of 46 runs. But the team failed to win due to losing wickets at regular intervals.
Who is the reason for the team’s defeat?
Explaining the reason for the team’s defeat, Pandya said-
“The game is becoming more competitive these days. Earlier the margin of victory used to be of a few overs, now it is the difference of the ball. If I had to pick one reason where we missed the match, I would say we took risks and scored runs in the middle overs. But left-handed batsmen should have batted against Axar Patel. It didn’t work out for us game-wise. Jake Fraser McGurk played very well, taking risks with the bat and using the ground well. His innings reflects his fearlessness.”
Tilak held guilty of defeat
Hardik Pandya was referring to Tilak Verma. Let us tell you that he scored the most runs for Mumbai and as soon as he got out, the team’s hopes ended. But Hardik in his gestures made him responsible for the defeat. If you pay attention to Hardik’s statement, he said-
“If I had to win some matches, we could have taken a little more risk in our overs. Especially the left-handed batsmen could have gone a little more behind the letter. It was a bit of a mistake from a match point of view.”