Ruturaj Gaikwad : After yesterday’s match, Ruduraj Gaekwad spoke about the reason for the defeat.
In the match between Chennai and Punjab teams held yesterday in the IPL series, the Punjab team won the toss and chose to bowl. After that, the Chennai team came into bat and added 162 runs after stumbling in the bowling of the Punjab team. In particular, Chennai team’s Ruduraj Gaekwat’s 62 runs off 48 balls helped Chennai team register a decent score.
Jonny Bairstow and Rousseau, the batsmen of the Punjab team, who entered the batting field after that, played well in the batting. Due to this, Punjab won by 7 wickets after reaching a target of 163 in 17.5 overs. After this match, the captain of the Chennai team, Rudraaj Gaikwad, explained the reason for the defeat. Talking about this, he said, “I think we initially set the target 50-60 runs short.
That said, the pitch was good in the 2nd innings and we were not at our best when we were batting. I feel we fell short of a score that would have put Punjab under pressure. The conditions and the pitch in the last 2 matches helped our team a lot. It also helped us win. It gave us a chance to fight hard and score over 200.
Today this pitch is not even a way to score 180 runs. Also, when players left the match due to injuries i.e. Deepak Sahar got out in the very first over, it didn’t help our situation further. Situations like this are very difficult when you have only 2 bowlers in your side.
We still have 4 matches left, let’s see, we will try and get back to winning ways.” That was what Ruduraj Gaekwad said after the match. Chennai team has played 10 matches in this IPL series and lost 5 matches and won 5 matches and is at the 4th position in the points table.
