IPL 2023: SRH head coach Brian Lara says middle order is a bit in progress after MI loss

By India Today Sports Desk: SRH coach Brian Lara has admitted that the middle order of the workers stays to be a bit in progress after their 14-run loss to Mumbai Indians on Tuesday.

MI had posted a troublesome full of 192 of their 20 overs on the once more of Cameron Green’s 64 and cameos from Ishan Kishan and Tilak Verma. Chasing the aim, the SRH middle order batters had been unable to provide massive contributions as that they had been bundled out for 178.

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Speaking on the post-match press conference, as quoted by Sportskeeda, Lara admitted that the middle order of SRH stays to be a bit in progress. He acknowledged that the earlier IPL Champions need players very like Rahul Tewatia and David Miller.

Lara moreover acknowledged that SRH weren’t the upper workers on the day.

“It’s a bit in progress. We should have guys who’re pondering the game all by correct till the highest. There are some good examples inside the IPL. Tewatia, Miller, we do need that type of explicit individual to know strategies to calculate going down, who’re the bowlers going to return again and plan accurately. We’ve been engaged on that.”

“We weren’t the best team today [Tuesday]. We have to accept that. Mumbai Indians was the better team today,” said Lara.

Lara said that SRH were always in the game and felt that the pitch was more like a 175 track. However, he said that their efforts to stay in the hunt were hampered by the consistent loss of wickets throughout the chase.

“I felt we were always in the game and I felt the pitch was maybe more like a 175. It was a little bit slow off the deck. We tried to stay in the game throughout but we lost wickets consistently throughout our chase and it slowed us down.”

“Both Mumbai Indians and us had been coming off of back-to-back victories so we knew that they had been choosing up some momentum and I felt that within the current day they carried out increased cricket and bought right here out on prime,” acknowledged Lara.