Sourav Ganguly admits that his team should have scored more runs against Delhi – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sourav-Chandidas-Ganguly-c90746, the skipper of Pune Warriors, is not happy with the performance of his batsmen in the 31st fixture of the fifth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) against Delhi Daredevils, and admits that his batsmen should have scored
more runs on the flat batting track of Subrata http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Symonds-c44611 Sahara Stadium.
Pune won the toss and elected to bat first, but only made 146 runs for the loss of two wickets in 20 overs. Considering the fact that the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warriors-c861 had eight wickets in hands, they should have definitely scored more runs.
On the other hand, the visitors batted brilliantly and chased down the mediocre score by eight wickets and four overs to spare, which is quite a comprehensive margin in the shortest format of the game. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739 played a smashing knock
and remained unbeaten on 87 off only 48 balls.
The home team lost a couple of wickets earlier in the innings before http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robin-Uthappa-c2356 consolidated the proceedings. However, the two failed to give enough momentum to their side.
Sourav expressed that the pitch was good for batting and his team was 30 to 40 runs short against Delhi, which is arguably the best batting team of the tournament in the presence of Sehwag, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LRPL-Taylor-c1849.
The former Indian captain said, “This was a good wicket to bat on. The ground is also not that big. So a score of 170-175 would have been good. But we lost a couple of wickets early. Still, we had eight wickets. But then, we did not score enough runs. We
needed the momentum going. Till the 13th over, we scored under six runs per over. We got some runs in the end.”
The Daredevils’ skipper, Sehwag, also praised the performance of his bowlers and said that they did not allow the Warriors to run away with the show.
“I think PWI recovered pretty well after they lost two wickets early on. Unfortunately, they could not score more than 146 runs. The credit should go to our bowlers,” said http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HA-Varaiya-c1520.
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