Gilchrist keen for Kings XI to recover from slump – Cricket News Update
Following their second consecutive IPL5 defeat, this time a 22-run loss to the Pune Warriors on April 8 at the Subrata http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Gilchrist-c918 admitted that while his team’s recent performances had been disappointingly
shoddy, they now needed to focus on turning their game around.
“We gave away 30 runs too many and 10 minutes of madness toward the end of our bowling and bad calls towards the start of our batting cost us the game,” he said.
After losing the toss and being put to field, the Kings XI went on to make two important dents in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JD-Ryder-c1679
followed soon after, run out by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Kumar-c2143 after scoring just 8 runs.
Afterwards, as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robin-Uthappa-c2356 took to the crease, the Kings XI lost control of the innings, as both batsmen established a devastating 81-run partnership, which Gilchrist’s bowlers were powerless to contain. Economy rates soared, as James
Faulkner gave away 31 runs in 4 overs at the cost of a single wicket, and Bipul Sharma conceded a shocking 40 runs in 2.4 overs, with no scalps to his name. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harmeet-Singh-c1533 remained the saving grace of the Kings XI bowling attack, taking 3 for 24.
The batting was similarly sloppy, with two “bad calls” resulting in both openers, Gilchrist and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Paul-Valthaty-c2170 being run out, in the third and fourth over respectively. After the two early dismissals, the team was unable to pick up momentum, and lost one
batsman after the next, with only http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bipul-Sharma-c48120 (35) managing to make significant contributions. Their efforts were still not sufficient, and the Kings XI found themselves cut off at 144 – 22 runs short of the target.
However, despite their loss, the 40-year-old wicketkeeper captain remained hopeful, saying the team’s main prerogative now was to turn their performances around, and recover from the slump they had fallen into.
“We need to train hard and turn it around. We can go through a form slump in this kind of long tournament and our prime purpose is to arrest it and make a comeback,” he stressed.
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