A happy Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma lauded his crew for an “excellent fightback” towards Kolkata Knight Riders, saying that one doesn’t get to see these type of tantalisingly shut video games.
Mumbai Indians got here again strongly within the final 10 overs of the match to defend a meagre complete of 152 towards KKR which managed solely 20 runs within the final 5 overs.
“It was an excellent fightback by each one of them. You don’t see a game like this often. We will take lots of confidence from this game as we move forward,” Rohit stated on the post-match presentation ceremony.
The MI skipper known as the win an entire crew effort on a tough monitor.
“KKR batted brilliantly within the Powerplay. Rahul (Chahar) got here and obtained us essential wickets within the center. Krunal (Pandya) bowling these overs on the finish was important as properly.
“It was a complete team effort and credit to all the bowlers. As batters, you need to carry on. The trend in Chennai is you can’t hit from ball one. You have to plan before you go into bat. We were 15-20 runs short,” he stated.
Losing captain Eoin Morgan was sad that his crew didn’t play “bold cricket” within the ultimate 10 overs.
“Yes, disappointing (to lose). We played some really good cricket for most parts of the game, we looked comfortable in the chase, but they are a strong team, came back well and sad that it didn’t work out for us,” he stated.
“We made a few mistakes and will need to sort that out. A perfect game needs to be bold, it came to cost us in the last 10 overs of the game,” stated Morgan.