IPL 2019, MI vs KXIP: Ravichandran Ashwin says Punjab could be been steelier and smarter with their plans
Kings XI Punjab chief Ravichandran Ashwin says the group's in-structure swashbuckler Chris Gayle "curved his back" amid the three-wicket misfortune to Mumbai Indians in an IPL amusement which required his side to be "steelier and more brilliant" than what it was.
Kieron Pollard's 31-ball 83 devastated Punjab, however, the meeting side additionally had a lot of excellent batting exhibitions, by Gayle (63 off 36 balls) and K L Rahul (100 not out off 64 balls).
"He (Gayle) said he contorted his back. We need to go check and how he is," Ashwin said of the 39-year-old ruinous West Indian batsman.
Gayle did not take the field amid Mumbai Indians' effective run pursue and KXIP mentor Sridharan Sriram likewise said the Jamaican should be checked throughout the following couple of days.
"He felt a jerk in the back - that is the thing that he said. We have to survey and screen what he will do throughout the following couple of days," he said
In another damage stress for KXIP, Ashwin said medium pacer Ankit Rajpoot, who went for 52 keeps running in his four overs yielding only one wicket, has a niggle as well.
"He (Ankit Rajpoot) harmed his finger in the first finished. It was a major reward that we got three overs from him in the powerplay. We were a bit here and there with our handling and getting," Ashwin said surveying the group's execution after seven matches, four of them wins.
"Most likely on the off chance that we would have been more honed, we would have wound up on the correct side. I think it was a defendable aggregate. It was just about standard. It is hard guarding ground," said the senior off-spinner when asked whether 197 was a major enough aggregate.
Ashwin felt the group lost force after an incredible begin yet surrendered that Pollard was the real contrast between the opposite sides.
"We were about 10s for 10-12 overs and afterward we lost a little force while batting which I feel was significant for us. I thought we were really great as a bowling unit in odds and ends," he reflected.
"By the day's end Pollard batted perfectly and removed the diversion from us...We could have been somewhat steelier and more brilliant with our arrangements," he said.