Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach Trevor Bayliss has said that it was a “difficult decision” to drop a veteran player like David Warner from the playing XI but the management was forced to try out some different combination to get back in the winning zone in the ongoing IPL.
Notably, Warner has been removed from the captaincy on Sunday as well as SRH could only manage one win one out of their six games. Even, Warner also has been going through a rough patch.
“It was very difficult (to drop Warner from playing XI). He’s a guy who has had so much success for the team but that’s the way we wanted to go, try and get a different combination working for us,” Bayliss said at the post-match conference after SRH faced side’s 55-run defeat against Rajasthan Royals in Delhi.
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“Like any player who gets dropped, he (Warner) was disappointed. If you saw tonight, he was running around as 12th man doing as much as he could for the team. He has been good, talking with Kane and some of the other players, giving them advice,” Bayliss further added.
Meanwhile, the coach also said that although it will be “challenging” without playing a batsman of a calibre like Warner, he doesn’t see any problem playing under the captaincy of Kane Williamson as he has captained the side before in the absence of David Warner and also one of the best in the business as well.
“Very challenging without David as a player, a new captain. I don’t think there’ll be too much of problem as Kane has been captain of the team before in the last 2 or 3 years, he’s an experienced captain captaining New Zealand. We just didn’t play very well tonight and one guy played extremely well,” he claimed.
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While talking about the match, Bayliss has said that Rashid Khan was handed over the responsibility to dismiss the dangerous-looking Jos Buttler in the powerplay which eventually didn’t happen and he smashed a ton.
“Rashid is our best performing bowler and he had a decent record against Jos Buttler in the past so we thought we’d bowl him fairly early to try and get Jos out before he gets going. Obviously, a very flat wicket. And Kane decided to try and keep going to get him out. Unfortunately, it didn’t work tonight that’s the way the game goes sometimes,” he concluded.
