IPL 2021 has seen a lot of quality performances so far and because of this, many star players didn’t get a chance to play in the league so far. And, New Zealand all-rounder James Neesham is one of them. He is a part of the five-time champions Mumbai Indians and currently warming the bench.

He was bought by Mumbai Indians in IPL 2021 mini-auction and he has earlier played a few matches with Kings XI Punjab (now PBKS) last year. However, a Twitter user tried to troll Neesham over his hard-hitting skills but he got a befitting reply. The Twitter user wrote that the all-rounder should improve his hitting skills to be in the team’s playing XI in T20 cricket.

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“You should work on your hard-hitting abilities. You are a perfect ODI All-rounder but you need to improve your hard-hitting abilities to cement a place in the t20 playing XI. It’s so disappointing for you and us as well that Player like you warming the bench,” wrote the user on Twitter.

Lol. https://t.co/8KGpADwQ2W pic.twitter.com/Fan2I1ECDh

— Jimmy Neesham (@JimmyNeesh) April 28, 2021

In turn, James Neesham gave a sharp reply as he shared a picture in his tweet which talked about his stunning strike rate and average in the T20 cricket since 2019 as well.

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However, Mumbai Indians didn’t have a great start in the IPL 2021. After their last game against Punjab, where they lost, Rohit Sharma said: “Not enough runs. I still feel it is not a bad wicket to bat on. You saw how Punjab Kings batted and won the game with 9 wickets in hand. It is just the application which is missing in our batting. If you get 150-160 on this wicket then you are always in the game, that is something we failed to do in the last two games.

You can look at it either way, I thought their bowlers bowled well in the powerplay, Ishan was trying to hit but couldn’t get it and even I was not able to hit. We have batted well in the powerplay previously but today we failed to do so. Something is missing in our batting line-up, we are not able to bat 20 overs in the fashion we want and something that we have to look at and see what we can do. It was just a tactical thing, we wanted someone who would bat well against the spinners in the middle and SKY was the one to do that. But when you play on such a challenging pitch then you have to be ready for all the possibilities. We are not putting enough effort on the field and when the conditions are tough you need to understand how you need to bat and how you need to bowl.”