Mahela Jayawardene praised the team, after the Mumbai Indians’ loss against the Lucknow Super Giants.
In the Indian Premier League mega-sale, Mumbai Indians spent Rs 15.25 crore on left-handed batter; Ishan Kishan, and the team was counting on him to be at his best; and help the Rohit Sharma-led side get off to a strong start. However, despite scoring 81 points in the season’s first game, Kishan has struggled; to find his rhythm and is currently in a slump. In eight matches, he has 199 runs at an average of 28.43. Following the Mumbai Indians’ eighth consecutive loss this season; head coach Mahela Jayawardene remarked that Kishan has struggled in later games; and that his execution isn’t what the team “expects from him.”
“Clearly, you’ll see on the field that he has endured within the final four diversions after a solid begin; within the to begin with few. I haven’t talked to him around it since the diversion to see what went through; his head around how we ought to handle it. We’ve given him the flexibility to play his characteristic amusement; something he hasn’t done so viably in later diversions “Amid a virtual post-match press conference, Jayawardene commented.
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“We’ve talked to him before, and even today, when Rohit was batting brilliantly, he struggled. That’s a discussion I’ll have with him after the game. But, no, that’s not what we’re expecting from him at the top “Added he.
Kishan was unable to get going in the encounter against Lucknow Super Giants, scoring 8 runs off 20 balls. He failed to rotate the strike and was eventually removed in the eighth over of the innings by Ravi Bishnoi.
On Sunday, the Lucknow Super Giants upset the Mumbai Indians by 36 runs; to move into fourth place in the IPL points rankings.
LSG batted first and scored 168/6 in 20 overs, thanks to skipper KL Rahul’s unbroken 103-run innings. With this innings, Rahul became the first player in T20 cricket history to score three 100s against the same opponent.
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LSG won by 36 runs as Krunal Pandya returned with three wickets to reduce Mumbai to 132/8.