IPL 2023: GT captain Hardik Pandya feels crew must have accomplished extra sturdy and acquired to 200 after RR loss

By India Today Sports Desk: GT captain Hardik Pandya felt that the crew didn’t ranking ample runs throughout the first innings and talked about they should have tried to get to the 200-run mark after their loss to RR on Sunday.

Sanju Samson had put GT into bat and they also posted 177 on the once more of David Miller’s 46 and Shubman Gill’s 45. The RR chase acquired off to a nasty start with Pandya and Mohammed Shami wreaking havoc throughout the first 4 overs.

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But then Sanju Samson and Shimron Hetmyer’s damaging batting acquired RR their first-ever win over GT with three wickets and 4 balls to spare.

Speaking after the match, as quoted by Cricbuzz, Pandya talked about that he didn’t anticipate the loss after the strong bowling effectivity throughout the powerplay.

“To be honest no (didn’t expect the loss after the powerplay), but that’s the beauty about this game. The game is never over till it’s over, another lesson for us,” talked about Pandya.

The GT captain talked about Noor Ahmed and talked about that the other bowlers didn’t execute correctly inside the previous few overs. Pandya moreover talked about that his physique was feeling good.

“He’s someone who’s difficult to pick, got us the big breakthrough but the other bowlers didn’t execute. Body is good, everything is good. It’s a very long tournament. A lot of matches left, we still need to play a lot of group cricket even if we had won today,” talked about Pandya.

Pandya talked about that he felt that 177 was a bit temporary and talked about the crew might need gone a bit extra sturdy and acquired to 200.

“I felt short. After I got out, they bowled a couple of good overs, but we should have gone a little harder and got to 200. We did cover it well but when I was watching from outside, I did feel that we were 10 runs maybe short,” talked about Pandya.