Geoff Marsh urges Pune Warriors to improve their batting – IPL-4 Update
The debutant, Pune Warriors’ coach Geoff Marsh has asked his players to improve their batting skills ahead of their Indian Premier League match against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Friday.
Pune, under the captaincy of ICC World Cup 2011 winning star, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kerala-c803. But in the next matches, Yuvraj’s side lost their form completely and faced
four losses on the trot, due to which they were moved down to the second last place in the points table.
In the first two wins, Pune availed the advantage of their strong bowling attack, as they did not let their opponents to set big targets. While in the third game, they displayed a poor batting performance, as none of their batsmen could even score a half
century. In the following matches, Pune’s openers and middle-order lost their batting form, which cost them successive defeats.
Jesse Ryder, Mohnish Mishra and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians and Chennai Super Kings.
The Warriors, now have eight more games to play including their Friday’s encounter with RCB, who have reserved third place in the table with three wins.
Marsh believed that his team has tremendous potential to play against RCB and they will come up with a place alongside the toppers Mumbai Indians and Chennai.
"The whole competition is pretty wide open at the moment. But we need to focus on winning the next game and playing better at the top,” said Marsh.
Marsh also added that if once they regain their momentum, they will have eight teams to go to lift their position up in order to make them among the top four teams for the semi-final.
Although statistical analysis of both the teams show that there has been a big difference in their performances in the tournament so far, but still the competition can become eye-catching if Ryder, Uthappa and Mithun Minhas regain their form.
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