GT Captain Hardik Pandya was disappointed with the batting effort as his team lost to Mumbai Indians by 5 runs at the Brabourne Stadium. It is the first instance of GT losing while batting second.
Soon after, there were two avoidable run-outs of Hardik himself and Rahul Tewatia which harmed GT. Requiring 9 runs from the final over, Daniel Sams bowled a brilliant over where he conceded just 3 runs and took MI to their moment triumph of the season.
“On any day, we’d take 9 off the last over. The two run-outs cost us the game. I think batters let us down. In T20s, you can’t lose back-to-back games. No blame games as we have cleared such games. We have made rookie mistakes which cost us this one.”
“We played good cricket for 19.2 overs in our innings, one or two hits would have made a difference. We should not have let it come down to the last over. I think bowlers did a fantastic job by putting pressure and pulling it back to 170, as they were on the way to 200,” Hardik said at the post-match presentation ceremony.
Final scores:
MI – 177/6 in 20 overs
GT – 172/5 in 20 overs
