‘They batted well, given the conditions and the kind of bowling they faced. Especially Shubman Gill – some exceptional hitting,” Rayudu said. “Buttler struggled a little bit, only because of the nature of the surface and the bowling. Buttler was anticipating balls he was not getting. He was premeditating a lot. Buttler at his best actually just sees and reacts.
“Other than that, they have given their all. This is the upper ceiling of GT’s batting.”
“If GT accept that or not, that is their prerogative, but from an outside view, it does seem to be an issue,” Bangar said. “If you have to score targets further than 225, it will come back and hurt them.”
“It’s a simple scenario for us. We don’t have to worry about other results either. It is in our hands. If we win the game, we qualify, as simple as that. I don’t think we have to think about other results. For us it is simple math”
Parthiv Patel
“If you see the last six matches, we won five games, and we chased and won two-three games. So I don’t think [it is worrying],” Parthiv said. “Washington Sundar has made a fifty at the start, now also the way he’s been batting, he hasn’t got out, and has finished games. So I don’t think it is a matter of concern or we are struggling in that department. Even today, chasing nearly 250, we scored 220. So I don’t think that’s the thing.
“Sai Sudharsan has the ability… I know it doesn’t look like he hits the ball [hard], but he hits the ball really hard. Even from a strike-rate perspective, there is no problem. He has both the games. Even when he came to bat after the 17th over, he could still hit the ball, he could still hit the sixes, he could still find the boundaries.”
“I do feel there is a player. And we consistently find him in the impact list. And that is Anuj Rawat. He is someone who can hit against both pace and spin,” Bangar said. “He has some good experience with RCB and he has won a couple of matches playing in that fashion. So if GT want to try and win this championship, they have to get away from the thought process that ‘all is well’. They are rightly justified in thinking that with 16 points on the table, but it shouldn’t come and hurt them.”
“It’s a simple scenario for us,” Parthiv said. “We don’t have to worry about other results either. It is in our hands. If we win the game, we qualify, as simple as that. I don’t think we have to think about other results. For us it is simple math.
“We try to keep it as simple as possible. We know our strengths and our weaknesses. We want to build on our strengths and want to ensure we make fewer unforced errors. But the game is such that sometimes you make mistakes, but our plan is to not complicate things and keep them simple.”
