Robin Singh blames Mumbai Indians’ batting for defeat – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians’ coach Robin Singh expressed his disappointment with the team’s poor batting performance, saying it had been the cause of their recent 32-run defeat against the Kolkata Knight Riders at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on May 16.
“The batting has been extremely poor. That's an understatement on a wicket like this,” he said. “… We did not show any intent at the end of first six overs.”
“Wicket was fine, nothing wrong with the wicket … We could not chase 140. Obviously we did not bat well.”
The Mumbai Indians had won the toss and elected to field, but the batsmen on both sides struggled on the pitch, owing to the bounce in the track, and the ball not coming on. The highest individual score in the visitors’ camp was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manoj-c1888 Tiwary’s 41, and even
skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447, who has been a consistent run-scorer for his side, only managed 27.
The Mumbai Indians’ bowlers did a fine job of restricting the opposition, cutting them off at 140, but their batsmen were unsuccessful in the chase, marking the team’s fifth defeat in the 8 games they have played at home this season.
“… This is a batsmen's game. The batters have to come up and put the (opposition) bowlers under pressure. If you allow the bowlers to come into the game then you are in trouble,” observed Robin Singh.
However, the Mumbai Indians made exactly that mistake, and KKR’s bowling attack left them stumped. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Iqbal-Abdulla-c1596 in the 6th over. However, what triggered the batting collapse
was mystery spinner Sunil Narine’s dismissal of veteran batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556, who was unable to pick the young bowler’s off-break, and departed for 27 in the 11th over.
Narine continued to wreak havoc on Mumbai’s batting line-up, and ended with figures of 4 for 15. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shakib-Al-Hasan-c2492 picked up one wicket apiece. Tendulkar’s
27 was the highest score by an MI batsman for the day, and the hosts managed to reach 108 before they were all out – 32 runs short of the target.
Commenting on the possibility of changes in the team, post-defeat, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rabindra-Ramanarayan-Singh-c83216 said that the bowling would go unchanged, but the batting had let them down while chasing what should have been an easily achievable target.
“140...9 out of 10 we should be winning that on this wicket, actually 10 out of 10,” he said.
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