After Mumbai Indians misplaced to the Delhi Capitals by 10 runs in an Indian Premier League encounter on Saturday, MI captain Hardik Pandya pointed fingers at high scorer Tilak Varma for missing ‘match consciousness.’
Batting first, Delhi Capitals batters plundered the Mumbai bowlers, scoring 257 runs. Jake Fraser-McGurk blasted 84 whereas Tristan Stubbs (48*) and Shai Hope (41) additionally joined in on the act. Whereas no Mumbai bowler was spared, Hardik himself was the most costly by way of economic system charge: conceding 41 runs off his two overs at an economic system charge of 20.50.
In batting, Hardik virtually made up for that, by scoring 46 runs. He was the second highest scored for Mumbai after Tilak, who scored 63 earlier than he was run out.
What Hardik Pandya mentioned about Tilak Varma
But, Hardik was unimpressed by how Tilak had dealt with one portion of the sport.
“(When) Axar was bowling to a left-hander (Tilak), the higher choice may have been to go after him,” Hardik mentioned in his blunt evaluation on the official broadcast after the sport. “I feel it was just a bit sport consciousness that we missed out. On the finish of the day, that price us the sport.”
The part of the sport that Hardik was speaking about got here when left-arm spinner Axar was bowling within the eighth over. MI have been 72 for 3 at that stage. Axar solely bowled two overs within the match. OF the 12 balls he bowled on the night time, left-hand batter Tilak confronted six balls. However on the primary 4 balls of that contest, Tilak selected to choose simply singles.
It should be famous that Tilak then hit a six and topped it off with a boundary to assist Mumbai attain 115 for 3 on the ten-over mark. Axar was taken off after that, and by no means bowled for the remainder of the night time. In the meantime, Tilak batted until the final over, getting run out whereas making an attempt a second run on the primary ball of the ultimate over.
Hardik went on so as to add. “The way in which the video games are going and the way the bowlers are underneath stress all through the competitors, we backed ourselves to do it, the self-belief (was there). But when I’ve to pinpoint, a pair overs within the center, we may’ve taken some further probabilities,” mentioned Hardik.
The Mumbai captain additionally praised Fraser-McGurk’s 27-ball 84 for Delhi, which he mentioned displayed the “fearlessness of youth”.
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