IPL 2021: Kieron Pollard upbeat regardless of MI lose to CSK – We have 6 extra video games to go

Mumbai Indians’ stand-in captain Kieron Pollard sounded upbeat regardless of shedding the opening sport of the UAE leg of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 to Chennai Super Kings in Dubai. Mumbai Indians are in peril of slipping out of the highest 4 of the factors desk after shedding their 4th match of the season.

Mumbai Indians are hanging onto the 4th spot on the IPL 2021 factors desk regardless of the 20-run defeat to Chennai Super Kings. They must win not less than 4 of their remaining 6 video games to make it to the play-offs of the 14th season.CSK vs MI: IPL 2021 Report | HighlightsMumbai Indians fell nicely wanting a 157-run goal as Saurabh Tiwary waged a lone battle together with his eighth IPL fifty. But it was not sufficient as Deepak Chahar (2/19) and Dwayne Bravo (3/27) ran by way of the Mumbai Indians batting unit that didn’t have Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya with each their star gamers resting for the resumption of the season.Kieron Pollard threatened to do what he did a number of months in the past in opposition to CSK in New Delhi however Josh Hazlewood obtained the massive wicket within the 14th over.”We needed one guy to bat deep. We had a couple of soft dismissals. We can’t let that happen at this level, but we still have six games to go,” Pollard mentioned.Pollard conceded that Mumbai Indians gave a bit too many in the long run overs as CSK collected 69 runs within the final 5 overs. CSK have been decreased to 24 for 4 on the finish of the powerplay however Ruturaj Gaikwad got here up with an aesthetic innings (88 not out) to assist them submit 156 on the board within the quota of 20 overs.”We must have got a partnership. You can do a lot of things differently in hindsight. Losing by 20 runs, I think that is the difference. Gave too many with the ball at the end. Their batters tried to continue the momentum throughout, we didn’t do that. We could have learnt from their mistake of losing too many wickets in the powerplay,” Pollard added.Always a superb feeling to win in opposition to MI: BravoIn the meantime, Dwayne Bravo mentioned he was blissful to contribute with each the bat and the ball in opposition to their arch-rivals Mumbai Indians. The West Indies star took 3 wickets and hit a quickfire 23 from simply 8 balls.Bravo’s late flourish helped CSK submit a aggressive complete which in the long run proved an excessive amount of for Mumbai on a two-paced pitch in Dubai.”It’s a good feeling, obviously against MI it’s the toughest team in IPL and it’s like a final playing them, always a good feeling to win. Just tried to protect myself in the last stages of CPL and when I came over here, just had one bowling session which was yesterday and happy to get 4 overs through today.”Now I bat decrease down the order with the batting line-up like CSK, for me it is nearly attempting to get the momentum and attempt to capitalize, modify and adapt. Just attempt to give one of the best of my capability each time I’m going out to bat,” Bravo added.