LSG captain Rishabh Pant expressed happiness with the team’s performance against Gujarat Titans (GT) in the ongoing IPL on Thursday, at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. He also opined on their ability to play good cricket despite not qualifying for the IPL playoffs. He added the importance of learning and improvement, while also sharing his views on the positive contributions of the batting unit, and addressing fielding lapses as well.
“Definitely happy. We have shown as a team that we can play good cricket. There was a time in the tournament we had the chance to qualify. But that’s part and parcel of the game. We need to learn and get better. Always a question of getting the top three, but the way Shahrukh batted it definitely gives hope down the order as well. There was injury concerns coming into the tournament. The way Mitch, Markram, and Pooran batted and the whole batting unit in fact. Fielding, we made lapses. Learn from it and move forward,” Rishabh Pant said in the post-match presentation.
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Rishabh Pant scored 16 runs of just 6 balls, as he smashed Rabada for two sixes as well. Before this match, in 12 innings, Pant managed only 135 runs at a scrappy average of 12.27 while barely managing a strike rate of 100.
Meanwhile, LSG top-order star Mitchell Marsh opined that the factor that makes the IPL the “best competition in the world” comes down to its competitive nature, where any team can beat anyone on a given day as well.
“It’s been very disappointing. We lost close games, and we are out of the race. The IPL is a beast of a competition. Any team can beat any team in this competition on a given day; that’s why this is the best competition in the world,” Mitchell Marsh said in the post-match presentation after being awarded the Player of the Match.
“I have had a few years off in between as well (on finally getting his first IPL hundred). First played for the Deccan Chargers in 2010. It’s been a while. Getting an opportunity to open the batting. The partnership with Aiden on and off the field has been amazing. Came to the IPL pretty fresh. They (GT) bowled really well in the powerplay. If you are 12 off 12 in the powerplay, it’s panic stations, but once we got a few good partnerships, it made things easy for us,” he concluded.
