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Mumbai Indians bowling attack bowled exceptionally well to keep their prospects alive as they outplayed Rajasthan Royals by eight wickets in a low-scoring match at Sharjah.
Answering IndiaSportsNews.in query on whether toss was a big factor, Kumar Sangakkara said, “Well, you could probably say that, we haven’t played here at Sharjah before and watching the other games, it seems to be slightly better in the night and there was probably little bit more pace.”
“But once you have only 90 on the wicket it was really tough unless you had this amazing power-play with wickets and very few runs.”
“The crucial part for us was, we were 42/1 after the power-play and the plan was to extend it beyond the 13th/14th over, with at least seven wickets in hand, so that we could really target a bowler or two and build a platform beyond the 15th over,” he said.
“Unfortunately, we didn’t adapt, Mumbai bowled very well and we lost too many wickets, so we could never attack at any stage. So probably, the fault lies more with us, than just the pitch or the toss,” he added.
Put into bat, Rajasthan could score only 90/9, which Mumbai Indians chased down in just 8.2 overs, with young Ishan Kishan blazing his way to an unbeaten 50.
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