The Sunrisers Hyderabad have not had a good start to their tournament as their Captain, Pat Cummins is still recovering from his injury and they also ended up losing the inaugural match against RCB in Chinnaswamy. Their key batter, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma and Henrich Klassen did not perform as expected and it was the skipper Ishan Kishan’s 80 run domination and the debutante Aniket Verma’s fearless innings that helped SRH post a defendable score.
In the post match conference, following the team’s loss against RCB, the bowling coach of the Sunrisers, Daniel Vettori criticised his bowlers and called their performance “poor” as they allowed Devdutt Paddikal and Virat Kohli to score too many runs. Despite managing to post a good score of 201, SRH were not able to defend the score while RCB chased it in just 15.4 overs. SRH even managed to get Salt out in the initial overs of the match but it was the partnership between Kohli and Padikkal which won the game for RCB.
"You have to get a good start (with the ball), which we did against (Phil) Salt, but then I just think we weren't at our best with the ball. We weren't as disciplined as we needed to be, and we gave a lot of scoring opportunities to Virat and Padikkal, who played exceptionally well," Vettori said in the post-match press conference.
Vettori appreciated the batting performance of the Challengers and lauded them while admitting the poor performance of their bowlers.
Vettori hoped that young bowlers such as left-arm pacer David Payne and left-arm spinner Harsh Dubey would come good in coming matches.
The Hyderabad side managed to cross 200, but on a flat Chinnaswamy surface the total was vastly inadequate, and Vettori admitted as much.
