Rahul Dravid says winning the eliminator after a tough week off-field was fantastic – Cricket News
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 Royals’ skipper, Rahul Dravid, said that winning the IPL Eliminator against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Wednesday was fantastic, particularly after a tough week off the field, marred by the spot-fixing charges
against three of his players.
“I am very happy, it has been a pretty difficult week for us, to come back and win like this was fantastic,” said Dravid after the thrilling four-wicket win over the Sunrisers here at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium,
New Delhi, on Wednesday.
Three Rajasthan Royals players, including http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 police last week for their alleged involvement in a spot-fixing incident. The spot-fixing saga
raised a few eyebrows regarding Rajasthan’s performance in the tournament. However, Dravid and Co. silenced their critics with an impressive show with the bat and ball in the IPL-VI Eliminator, courtesy to a crucial partnership between Australian duo of Brad
Hodge and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Faulkner-c1643.
After restricting http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hyderabad-c792 line up to just 132 for 7 in their allotted quota of 20 overs, the Royals were struggling at 102 for 6 in the 16th over when Faulkner joined Hodge at the crease.
The Australians played fearless cricket to take the side home with four balls to spare.
Dravid agreed his middle order once again failed to deliver in the pressure situation; however, he said that they have a lot of young players in the middle order who have not encountered such situations in their
career.
“We did not play well in the middle overs, we have plenty of young batsmen, they have not encountered such situations in their career so far,” said the former Indian skipper at the post-match presentation ceremony.
“But we have someone putting their hand up every game, and this time it was Hodge. He is a class player, one of our two big guns. He has not batted a lot this time around, but he is an excellent finisher,” added
the Indian batting stalwart.
Rahul Dravid and Co will next play http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians in the second Qualifier of the Indian T20 league at Eden Gardens on Friday, and should they win the qualifier, they will face Chennai Super Kings in the grand
finale at the same venue a day later.
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