Mumbai Indians’ (MI) bowling coach Shane Bond reckoned his workforce’s bowling hasn’t been up to speed within the 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL). Bond, one of many quickest bowlers throughout his heydays, stated that the MI bowlers have proven a bent to crumble underneath stress.
Bond was of the opinion that MI had the prospect to safe victories in all three matches, however did not capitalise on the probabilities given to them. After shedding all their video games within the ongoing match, Rohit Sharma and Co. are struggling on the backside half of the factors desk.
On Wednesday, MI was seeming to get the Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) by the scruff of their necks earlier than Pat Cummins wreaked havoc. Cummins smashed a 15-ball 56 and made a mockery of the MI tempo assault. His knock helped the Knights win with as many as 24 balls to spare.
However, Bond, additionally a former New Zealand pacer, believed that the Mumbai-based workforce has each probability of staging a comeback in the event that they up their sport in crunch moments.
‘Simple Fix’
“It’s been a real mixed bag from us, I suppose from a bowling unit,” Bond stated. “You look at the last game; the first ten overs were fantastic. We had a couple of overs that got away from us. It’s been a little bit of a pattern for us, that we’ve done some really good stuff, we’ve taken out a number of the big players exactly how we thought we would – but when the game’s been in the balance, we’ve gone for some overs of 20-plus. And when you go for overs of 20-plus, then you end up losing matches.
“It’s a easy repair actually. If we are able to stick with our plans and stick with the areas we need to bowl when the stress comes on, then I’ll suppose you will see a turnaround,” Bond was quoted as saying.
The MI bowlers kept their team in the game, although Venkatesh Iyer had scored a half-century. Andre Russell, who has been in jaw-dropping form of late, also perished cheaply. But Cummins’ knock took the five-time IPL champions by absolute surprise.
“As I stated, I feel we have seen that once we’ve executed our plans the way in which that we needed to, we have been actually profitable. We noticed it within the final sport in opposition to Andre Russell. Venkatesh Iyer, we made him work actually onerous for a fifty and bowled rather well to him. We’ve simply had one participant who’s come out in every sport and hit 30-plus off form of 10-11 balls which has taken the sport away from us,” Bond added.
Rohit’s males are subsequent scheduled to face Faf du Plessis’ Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on Saturday, April 9.