Viskhapatnam: Lucknow Super Giants skipper Rishabh Pant felt his bowlers could have done the basics better at the back end, as the target of 210 was defendable against a marauding Delhi Capitals, who won by one wicket with three balls to spare in their IPL match on Monday.
Ashutosh Sharma’s 66 not out of 31 balls and Vipraj Nigam’s 39 off 15 deliveries fashioned what looked like an improbable win after DC were dead and buried at 113 for 6.
“I think our top-order batters played well, and I think it was a pretty good score on this wicket. We got early wickets, but we knew it was a good wicket to bat on. We had to keep doing the basics right more often. I think they had a couple of good partnerships,” Pant said at the post-match presentation ceremony.
VISAKHAPATNAM: Lucknow Super Giants skipper Rishabh Pant felt his bowlers could have done the basics better at the back end as the target of 210 was defendable against a marauding Delhi Capitals who won by one wicket with three balls to spare in their IPL match on Monday.
Ashutosh Sharma’s 66 not out of 31 balls and Vipraj Nigam’s 39 off 15 deliveries fashioned what looked like an improbable win after DC were dead and buried at 113 for 6.
“I think our top-order batters played well, and I think it was a pretty good score on this wicket. We got early wickets, but we knew it was a good wicket to bat on. We had to keep doing the basics right more often. I think they had a couple of good partnerships,” Pant said at post-match presentation ceremony.
The way batters are slaying bowlers, Axar said that it started from last year.
“Don’t remember the last time I saw something like this. The way they played in the first six overs, we felt we gave a few too many early on. We dropped some catches as well. It looked like they could score 240, but we pulled things back.”
Player of the match Ashutosh dedicated his award to his mentor Shikhar Dhawan and said that it was a good thing that Vipraj initially attacked when he was not actually getting wood to leather.
“Well played to Vipraj. I asked him to keep hitting. He was very calm under pressure. Want to dedicate this award to my mentor Shikhar paaji.”
Ashutosh said that he had learnt his lessons from previous season when he couldn’t finish a few close games.
“Took the lessons from last year. Missed out on finishing the game on a couple of occasions in the previous season. The whole year I focussed and visualised about it. Had the belief that if I play till the last over, anything can happen.”
