Kumar Sangakkara slams Rajasthan Royals for embarrassing loss vs GT: Can’t sit and wait in T20 cricket

By India Today Sports Desk: Rajasthan Royals coach Kumar Sangakkara has slammed his aspect after an embarrassing outing in opposition to defending champions Gujarat Titans. Playing the reverse fixture throughout the Indian Premier League 2023 season, Rajasthan crumbled in opposition to the spin of Rashid Khan and Noor Ahmed. Sangakkara’s group scored merely 118 runs in 17.5 overs, after which didn’t restrict Gujarat throughout the second innings of the game. Powered by Hardik Pandya and Wriddhiman Saha, GT chased down the objective in 13.5 overs, handing them an infinite NRR improve throughout the occasion.

Rajasthan coach Sangakkara was left irritated with the loss and acknowledged that having no intent in opposition to spinners was the precept draw back from Rajasthan batters. He slammed the aspect and acknowledged that they should not have merely sat and waited in opposition to the Afghan spin duo.

“You can’t sit and wait in T20 cricket and let the bowlers bowl to us. But having said that, both Rashid and Noor bowled exceptionally well and not just that – their pace-bowling quartet came back into the game really well after not having the best of starts. So I think it’s all credit to Gujarat, the way they played, and we played a very poor game,” Sangakkara acknowledged throughout the post-match press conference.

The former Sri Lanka participant spoke regarding the incapacity to capitalise on start that was given to them by Sanju Samson after the dearth of Jos Buttler throughout the second over of the game.

“We were very, very poor in terms of capitalising on the starts we got. We were showing intent for a while, but we were a little bit reckless, and then we had very, very little intent against the two spinners. Rashid bowled brilliantly, I thought Noor bowled really well as well, but that’s the time the batters need to step up and show more and more intent,” the earlier cricketer acknowledged.

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Rajasthan batters didn’t get away Rashid on the day, who bowled one amongst his most interesting spells throughout the Indian Premier League. From 4 overs, Rashid picked 3 wickets at a miserly monetary system of three.5. Sangakkara was not pleased with the group’s intent and he let that know whereas chatting with the media.

“Even a defence in T20 cricket has to have the intent of wanting to score. You work down the sequence of 6, 4, 3, 2, 1; or, if you’re under pressure, you go 4, 3, 2, 1. But you are always looking for opportunities to score, and at the minimum, getting off strike,” the earlier Sri Lanka keeper acknowledged.

“And once that intent is shown, it doesn’t matter how good a bowler you are, you are always thinking that you can’t give the batter anything loose because you’re going to get put away. So that’s one area that we’ve got to really look at,” he concluded on the matter.

With the loss, Rajasthan didn’t capitalise on the possibility to maneuver as a lot because the second spot throughout the desk and remained at #4. They have 10 elements from 10 matches and are on the specter of slipping down the league desk.