CHENNAI (India): Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma praised his team-mates for an outstanding 10-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL on Tuesday night.
“It was a great fight-back by each one of them. You don’t see a game like this often. We got lots of confidence from this game and now, we move forward. KKR batted brilliantly in the powerplay, but Rahul came and got us crucial wickets in the middle,” said Sharma.
The five-time champions defended 152-run total for their first IPL 2021 win.
“Krunal bowling those overs at the end was vital as well. 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,” said the star India batsman.
But Sharma was appalled at the harakiri in the middle-order batting.
“We should have batted well at the fag end. We need to understand how we need to bat at the death but I don’t want to take any credit away from the team,” said the 33-year-old. “I’m glad that we could get some partnerships in the middle and get a decent total. We need to just figure out how to finish innings in the last 5 overs. We’ve done that in the past.”
