IPL 2021 Exclusive: Anjum Chopra suggests one big change for MI after side's loss to PBKS
Cricket | April 24, 2021 14:54 ISTMumbai Indians faced a nine-wicket defeat in their fifth game of the IPL 2021 season against the Punjab Kings.
Mumbai Indians faced a nine-wicket defeat in their fifth game of the IPL 2021 season against the Punjab Kings.
CSK eventually scored 220/3 in 20 overs, and restricted KKR to 202 after the latter made a brilliant comeback in the game from reeling at 31/5 at one stage.
Backing their core players have been a key characteristic of the Chennai Super Kings for years. Gaikwad fired 63 off 59, laced with six boundaries and four sixes, at a strike rate of 161.5
The veteran cricketer believes he still has "plenty in the tank left...looking forward to plenty more cricket." But Gayle's batting returns haven't been impressive yet.
Sanjay Manjrekar said that MI's batting unit needs to step up, and Pandya's form in particular has been a cause of worry for the side.
Delhi Capitals, who lost to Mumbai all four times last season including the season finale, held their nerve to break the jinx.
The spin pair of Moeen Ali and Ravindra Jadeja spun the game around in a spell of four overs to bury all hopes for Rajasthan in the battle for consistency in IP 2021.
Rahul Chahar orchestrated SRH's collapse with his three-fer after the opening pair's dismissal while Jasprit Bumrah bowled without being hit for a boundary as SRH fell 13 runs short of the target.
CSK secured a comfortable six-wicket win over PBKS, but former India women's captain Anjum Chopra highlighted the one major issue for Chennai in the batting order.
Manjrekar lauded Chahar's ability to generate swing early in the game and also added that the bowler is among the "top-5 or top-6" pacers in India.
Moeen opened only twice in IPL before scoring 14 runs in 10 balls. However, across T20 leagues, he has opened 37 times, scoring 1116 runs in 699 balls at a strike rate of 159.7 with a century and six fifties.
Manjrekar, however, noted that there were no "obvious mistakes" in his captaincy and that he made some good decisions throughout the game.
In the past two games in Chennai, the batting collapses in the final stages of the chase for KKR and SRH cost them the win.
SRH's death-over struggle continued for the second consecutive match as they lost six wickets in a space of just 23 deliveries from the start of the 16th over, for a score of just 27 runs, hence falling six runs short of the target.
Despite his worst ever IPL season last year in the UAE where he scored 108 runs in 106 balls for Kings XI Punjab, Maxwell was roped in by RCB for a whopping INR14.25 crore in the auction earlier this year in Chennai.
Since 2018, Kohli has a strike rate of 133.1 in T20 cricket which includes 121.4 in IPL 2020 and 113.8 in the only game he played this season.
Sanjay Manjrekar talked about the KKR player and also explained why the side's captain, Eoin Morgan has struggled in the two games so far.
Sanjay Manjrekar further added that he was "shocked" by KKR's batting collapse in the match against MI.
Krunal Pandya leaked just four runs in his final two overs with Andre Russell scoring just a single off seven deliveries.
Manjrekar feels that Mumbai Indians have a far weaker spin-bowling attack compared to the other eight teams in the tournament.
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