IPL5: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 aiming to restore Deccan Chargers’ pride – Cricket News Update
Deccan Chargers’, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hyderabad-c792 based franchise's chances of making it into the play-offs of the Indian Premier League (IPL5) are next to zero, after suffering eight defeats. However, skipper Kumar Sangakkara is aiming to restore
some pride by winning a few games.
Sangakkara admitted that the performance of the team, as a whole, was not up to the mark. The left-hander held that Chargers failed to absorb pressure at crunch situations and were also lethargic in the field.
However, the Sri Lankan cricketer remained optimistic about the future of his franchise, as there are some individuals in the Chargers camp who have shown a lot of promise.
While talking to Gulfnews in a telephonic interview, Sangakkara said, “There has been quite a lot of brilliant individual performances, but where we have lacked was fielding, especially in tough situations. We made some
crucial mistakes and have to learn from them. We now have to play for individual pride as well of the franchise.”
Sangakkara rubbished the claims that there was lack of commitment from any player in the Chargers' roster. The veteran cricketer praised some of the top performers of his team, who gave it their all despite the team suffering a
cluster of defeats.
“All you can really ask from your players is to give it their all and I have had no complaints on this score. Sikhar Dhawan has been magnificent for us this season and should be playing for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 in near future. White batted excellently
against Pune while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Parthiv-Patel-c2159 had given us some good starts,” said Sangakkara.
The current season of IPL has been the worst for Deccan Chargers so far. Chargers, who lifted the trophy in season two, are currently at the bottom of the table with only two wins from 11 games.
However, they would love to finish the tournament on a high by winning as many games as they can from the remaining five matches.
Deccan Chargers are to play the Kings XI http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833 next in their IPL5 campaign. The match will take place on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad.
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