‘The Powerplay is a concern...’ MI head coach highlights the reason behind their loss

Mumbai Indians head coach highlighted the reason behind their loss, stating that the powerplay, both with the bat and the ball, remains a concern. Royal Challengers Bengaluru secured a convincing 12-run victory over MI on Monday, handing them their fourth defeat in five matches this season.“The powerplay is a concern for us with the ball and the bat.

In the last few games as well, we were leaking too many runs with the ball in the powerplay as well,” Jayawardene said after the match.“We got an early wicket today as well – first over – but then they counter-punched, played some good shots, and we just did not react well to that. These are the margins and then they had a big sixth over, which really hurt us in that powerplay.



” Jayawardene addedWith an economy rate of 10.36, Mumbai Indians have been the most expensive bowling unit in the powerplay this season, managing to take just six wickets during that phase. On Monday, Trent Boult struck in the first over for the 31st time in IPL history.

However, Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal powered RCB to 73 for 1 by the end of the powerplay, largely due to a 20-run over from Deepak Chahar. It was the second-highest powerplay score against MI at the Wankhede and the fourth-highest against them overall in the IPL.However, during their chase of 222 runs MI lost two wicket and ended the powerplay on 54/2.

In this IPL, they have lost 10 wickets in the powerplay the second-most by any team trailing only Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), who have lost 12.“With the bat as well, I thought we had a good start but just couldn’t continue,” Jayawardene said. “We lost those two wickets and then we had to consolidate a little bit and lost a bit of momentum there.

We had a few big overs in between but we just weren’t in the game in that first ten overs. The margins are small in this competition and we’re not hitting our strides and that is a concern.” he addedMumbai Indians will face Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on April 13th.

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