So our season is officially over!!
It was good while it lasted. Can't blame anyone because as soon as we found our best 11, we had to sacrifice a key player to injury.
Some positives were Kartik, Anshul, Ayush, Jamie & Urvil.
Rutu has been a disaster with the bat, looks clueless
Hamza Ali Mazari and Rizwan Shah, as soon as they discovered PBKS needs to be defeated for making CSK's qualification easy 💀💀
(6 wickets between them 💀)
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Today we missed a trick by not sending Dube at 4. He could have disrupted LSG's middle overs momentum, especially by neutralising the Shehbaz threat and to some extent, Rathi too. With 2 right handers on the crease, pitch slowing a bit, their spinners applied the choke on our RR
Positives from today is that Rutu has got his touch back. Sanju is in the form of his life. Urvil can probably give you a knock like this once in a while.
If Brevis finds his form and Dube bats higher than Brevis with a freedom I think we could be better. Thoughts?
A sigh of relief!! Lucky and blessed to be on the right side of the result.. Those last few overs literally had my heart in my mouth, but thank you to Dube for holding his nerves
If we lose the game from here, the blame will be on Rutu.. Senior batter, Sanju out, 104 required off 84 (RRR 7.5/over), he can easily take his time and anchor the innings while others around him take occasional risks...
Fingers crossed 🤞🏻
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Urvil, brother, we already know what you're capable of. We are already impressed. Now, please bat at least 30 balls today and we know it's our game already 😭🙏🏻
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Sanju gone, middle order not reliable and above all no successful chase of 180+ since 2019..
Looks very unlikely, Rutu has to play out of his skin to take us home ..
I wish someday Rutu or Sanu guided him to stay for at least 20-30 balls after he gets a good start. I can only imagine the carnage he can bring. We need someone who's senior to him to play longer innings. Hope better sense prevails, and someday, we can see a beast being unleashed
I really feel like Urvil needs to open. Atleast with Mhatre it was okay in the sense that he could play long innings. Urvil's impact comes totally in the pp and he's playing hit or miss type or cricket. It makes no sense for him to come after Rutu.
Chetta, we love you man
What a player! Looks class apart on a pitch where everyone has struggled and against a lineup consisting of Starc, Ngidi, Axar and Kuldeep...
100%
There couldn't have been a better opportunity than toda to take the team home. RRR around 8, belter pitch, inexperienced bowlers, modest target. With Samson out early, it was his job to take the responsibility and bat through, but he threw his wicket. Just poor and pathetic
Sarfaraz lacks the hunger to score big. Whenever he gets 20-30 odd runs, he starts going for big hits by throwing bat everywhere. He can't be content with 20-30 runs. He could have played a bit longer. His wicket created unnecessary pressure that eventually resulted in our demise
not worse than Rutu the captain and batsman, to be honest.
RRR around 8, belter of a pitch, modest target & inexperienced bowlers but he couldn't manage to hold one end and allowed others to take risks. He could have taken responsibility and batted through & this was an easy win
@SergioCulerCSK Rutu has let this team down. He should be ashamed of himself. There couldn't have been a better game/chase to come back to form again. Required RPO around 8, inexperienced bowlers, belter of a pitch, modest target. He could have held one end and allowed others to take risks but..
Rutu should be ashamed of himself today. My blood is boiling already. This chase perfectly suited his batting style and tempo but he threw his wicket away despite knowing that Samson is also gone. He should have held one end and asked others to take risk.