In the 38th match of the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the match was played between Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. In this match, the dominance of Rajasthan Royals, playing under the captaincy of Sanju Samson, was completely visible in which Sandeep Sharma took 5 wickets in bowling and Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a match-winning century in batting. This is Mumbai Indians’ fifth defeat in this IPL season after 8 matches and now the path to reach the playoffs has become very difficult for them. Hardik Pandya said that the main reason for the team’s defeat in this match was losing early wickets in the beginning of the innings.
We got ourselves into trouble in the beginning
Hardik Pandya said after the defeat in the match against Rajasthan Royals that we had got ourselves into trouble in the beginning of our innings, when we lost 3 wickets at the score of 20. At that time we did not think that we would be able to reach even 180 runs but Tilak and Nehal batted very well. We could not end our innings as per expectation in which we scored 10 to 15 runs less. In bowling powerplay, we should have tried to throw the ball inside the wicket, but we were not seen doing so. Rajasthan completely defeated us in every department of the game in this match. After the match is over, this is not the right time to approach the players and I think everyone is professional and everyone knows their role very well.
We have to make sure these mistakes don’t happen again
In his statement, Hardik Pandya further said that the mistakes we made in this match need to be corrected and we will have to ensure that they are not repeated in future. It is important to move forward and we have to accept our shortcomings and work on them. I do not believe in criticizing the players too much, I fully support them so that better cricket can be played. We have to stick to our plan and avoid making basic mistakes. Let us tell you that Mumbai Indians have to play their next match against Delhi Capitals on 27th April, while the team is currently at 7th place in the points table with 6 points.
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