IPL 2021: Punjab Kings (PBKS) head coach Anil Kumble conceded that the franchise is over and over bottling games from winning positions. KL Rahul’s side lost however another winning plot to in the long run go down to the Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 2 runs within the Indian Premier League (IPL).
With fair 7 runs required off the ultimate 12 balls, and with 8 wickets remaining, PBKS failed to pivot strike within the confront of a few quality passing bowling by Mustafizur Rahman and Kartik Tyagi. Inquired in the event that the hitters might have attempted something diverse – perhaps like a scoop – Anil Kumble admitted dot balls cost them the game.
“As batters, they certainly know what their scoring shots are, it’s not about just the scoop. It also boils down to that particular batter. When you have 8 runs off 12 balls, I don’t think we needed a scoop, all it needed was a bit of hitting, and even if someone got out, the next batter would at least get 5 or 6 balls to get those runs.” he said
“When it goes to the last couple of balls, it becomes really hard. The messaging was very clear that we had to finish in 19 overs. But unfortunately, that didn’t happen today,” the PBKS chief
Chasing 186 for triumph, Nicholas Pooran (32 off 22) and debutant Aiden Markram (26* off 20). Appeared set to comfortably take PBKS over the line. But after left-armer Mustafizur conceded fair 4 runs within the penultimate over. 20-year-old Tyagi put on an exhibition of outside-off-stump yorkers to deliver away fair a singular run and claim two wickets.
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PBKS slipped to seventh within the points table, with fair 3 wins from 9 games. Anil Kumble expressed that the think tank will conduct a post-mortem on their rehashed failures to shut recreations. His advance harped on the significance of not letting this loss adversely affect their remaining five matches.
“Yes it’s become a pattern, that’s something we need to discuss and sort out. We have five more games, but again, we don’t want to get bogged down by this defeat. It’s certainly a difficult pill to swallow,” the legendary leg-spinner added.
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