With the fourth week of the Indian Premier League (IPL) coming to an end, there hasn&#8217;t been much change in the top half of the table. However, not all teams have been faultless. While teams like Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have continued to dominate, there have been a few slip-ups from the <strong>Chennai Super Kings (CSK)</strong> and the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), that has cost them a match apiece.

The margin for error is fast diminishing for all teams, considering that the group stage is about to draw to a close. The bottom half of the table is looking to concentrate on winning every encounter remaining while the top teams are aspiring to maintain consistency. This week has seen some of the most high-octane encounters of the entire tournament. Let&#8217;s take a look at the 5 biggest follies teams committed in the fourth week of IPL 2018.

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-247772" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Ravindra-Jadeja.jpg" alt="Ravindra Jadeja drops a sitter" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-247772" class="wp-caption-text">Ravindra Jadeja drops a sitter. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption>

Sunil Narine has probably been KKR&#8217;s major impact player since the last season and he&#8217;s carried that streak forward into the ongoing edition of the tournament. As a player, the Caribbean spinner hits those blistering boundaries and sixes that gives his team the ideal start to combat big scores. Hence, dropping such a major player twice in two consecutive deliveries was bound to cost CSK the match and so it did.

The encounter between KKR and CSK saw the latter further lose the grip on the match when they were unable to restrain young <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/kkr-spinner-piyush-chawla-lauds-shubman-gill-calls-him-a-special-talent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Shubman Gill</strong></a>. At a score of 64-3 with Chris Lynn and Robin Uthappa both back in the pavilion, KKR had been struggling to get a foothold in the game when Gill hit a sensational unbeaten half-century and wedged the door wide open for his side. CSK&#8217;s inability to get him out turned out to be one of the major reasons for their defeat.

2. Lack of contribution from Rajasthan Royals middle-order batsmen

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-239298" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Ben-Stokes-1.jpg" alt="Ben Stokes of Rajasthan Royals" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-239298" class="wp-caption-text">Ben Stokes of Rajasthan Royals. (Photo by Twitter)</figcaption>

A rain-curtailed match always calls for good performances in all three departments of the game for a team to win the game, since overs getting reduced always has the chance of heaping pressure on the teams. The team that&#8217;s able to handle the pressure better most often emerges as the winner. Unfortunately for the Rajasthan Royals, the pressure got the better of them against the Delhi Daredevils (DD).

Batting first, DD got good knocks from the young trio of Shreyas Iyer-Rishabh Pant-<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2018-prithvi-shaw-reminds-mark-waugh-of-sachin-tendulkar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Prithvi Shaw</strong> </a>that took them to 196 runs. Chasing the mammoth total, the RR middle-order was unable to consolidate on the start provided by D Arcy Short (44) and Jos Buttler (67). The abject failure of the RR middle order with 3 single-digit scores from the likes of Sanju Samson and Ben Stokes took the game away from them.

3. Mumbai Indians&#8217; over-dependence on Rohit Sharma

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-247991" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Rohit-Sharma.jpg" alt="Rohit Sharma" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-247991" class="wp-caption-text">Mumbai Indians&#8217; Rohit Sharma in action. (Photo by IANS)</figcaption>

Rohit Sharma is no doubt an instrumental cog in the Mumbai Indians machinery. However, over-dependence on a single batsman turns out to be fatal for any team and the same can be said about MI&#8217;s recent campaigns barring the last one. MI has had a lacklustre IPL campaign this time around with just 3 wins out of 9 matches.

MI&#8217;s match against the RCB, in particular, exposed Mumbai&#8217;s batting in the backdrop of Sharma&#8217;s failure to score a single run. Coupled with RCB&#8217;s surprisingly strong death bowling from Md. Siraj and Tim Southee that they might have underestimated given the previous inefficiency of the <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/surrey-pay-virat-kohli-nominal-match-fees-stint-county-championship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Virat Kohli</strong></a>-led side&#8217;s final over bowling, Mumbai were unable to battle their way to victory.

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-246915" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli-RCB.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli RCB" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-246915" class="wp-caption-text">Virat Kohli. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption>

&#8216;Catches win you matches&#8217;. RCB would&#8217;ve realised the importance of the statement in the most bitter way possible as dropped catches cost them a winnable encounter against the KKR in their own backyard. Chris Lynn, who was adjudged the &#8216;Player of the Match&#8217; for his unbeaten knock worth 62 runs from 52 balls, was dropped by Murugan Ashwin in the fourth over, delivering a big blow to RCB&#8217;s chances of winning.

Add to that the failure to convert a couple of more half-chances into possible catches and sloppy fielding, RCB ended up gifting the match to KKR so much so that it prompted the response &#8220;If we field like that, we don&#8217;t deserve to win,&#8221; from Captain Kohli. Their weak death bowling didn&#8217;t help either as they conceded way too many runs in the last four overs.

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-240788" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Aaron-Finch.jpg" alt="Aaron Finch" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-240788" class="wp-caption-text">Aaron Finch of KXIP. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption>

An IPL team containing the likes of Chris Gayle, KL Rahul, Yuvraj Singh and Karun Nair is expected and justified to depend heavily on their batting abilities. However, that didn&#8217;t happen for KXIP in Friday&#8217;s match against the Mumbai Indians. In spite of a good start from Gayle (50) and Rahul (24), KXIP middle-order were unable to convert it into something substantial. A run-a-ball inning from Singh slowed down the innings considerably.

As a result, the quickfire innings from Marcus Stoinis worth 29 runs off 15 balls came in too late to get KXIP to a defendable total. In reply to the target of 175 runs, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/we-will-look-to-ride-the-winning-momentum-from-here-on-suryakumar-yadav/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Suryakumar Yadav</strong></a> (57) put up a stiff resistance from the Mumbai Indians side and KXIP&#8217;s inability to devise a solution for his feisty batting left them reeling at the end of the match as MI won the match by 6 wickets.

<p>With the fourth week of the Indian Premier League (IPL) coming to an end, there hasn’t been much change in the top half of the table. However, not all teams have been faultless. While teams like Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have continued to dominate, there have been a few slip-ups from the <strong>Chennai Super Kings (CSK)</strong> and the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), that has cost them a match apiece.</p>
<p>The margin for error is fast diminishing for all teams, considering that the group stage is about to draw to a close. The bottom half of the table is looking to concentrate on winning every encounter remaining while the top teams are aspiring to maintain consistency. This week has seen some of the most high-octane encounters of the entire tournament. Let’s take a look at the 5 biggest follies teams committed in the fourth week of IPL 2018.</p>
<h3>1. Dropped catches from CSK against KKR</h3>
<figure id="attachment_247772" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-247772" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-247772" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Ravindra-Jadeja.jpg" alt="Ravindra Jadeja drops a sitter" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-247772" class="wp-caption-text">Ravindra Jadeja drops a sitter. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Sunil Narine has probably been KKR’s major impact player since the last season and he’s carried that streak forward into the ongoing edition of the tournament. As a player, the Caribbean spinner hits those blistering boundaries and sixes that gives his team the ideal start to combat big scores. Hence, dropping such a major player twice in two consecutive deliveries was bound to cost CSK the match and so it did.</p>
<p>The encounter between KKR and CSK saw the latter further lose the grip on the match when they were unable to restrain young <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/kkr-spinner-piyush-chawla-lauds-shubman-gill-calls-him-a-special-talent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Shubman Gill</strong></a>. At a score of 64-3 with Chris Lynn and Robin Uthappa both back in the pavilion, KKR had been struggling to get a foothold in the game when Gill hit a sensational unbeaten half-century and wedged the door wide open for his side. CSK’s inability to get him out turned out to be one of the major reasons for their defeat.</p>
<h3>2. Lack of contribution from Rajasthan Royals middle-order batsmen</h3>
<figure id="attachment_239298" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-239298" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-239298" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Ben-Stokes-1.jpg" alt="Ben Stokes of Rajasthan Royals" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-239298" class="wp-caption-text">Ben Stokes of Rajasthan Royals. (Photo by Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>A rain-curtailed match always calls for good performances in all three departments of the game for a team to win the game, since overs getting reduced always has the chance of heaping pressure on the teams. The team that’s able to handle the pressure better most often emerges as the winner. Unfortunately for the Rajasthan Royals, the pressure got the better of them against the Delhi Daredevils (DD).</p>
<p>Batting first, DD got good knocks from the young trio of Shreyas Iyer-Rishabh Pant-<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2018-prithvi-shaw-reminds-mark-waugh-of-sachin-tendulkar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Prithvi Shaw</strong> </a>that took them to 196 runs. Chasing the mammoth total, the RR middle-order was unable to consolidate on the start provided by D Arcy Short (44) and Jos Buttler (67). The abject failure of the RR middle order with 3 single-digit scores from the likes of Sanju Samson and Ben Stokes took the game away from them.</p>
<h3>3. Mumbai Indians’ over-dependence on Rohit Sharma</h3>
<figure id="attachment_247991" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-247991" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-247991" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Rohit-Sharma.jpg" alt="Rohit Sharma" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-247991" class="wp-caption-text">Mumbai Indians’ Rohit Sharma in action. (Photo by IANS)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Rohit Sharma is no doubt an instrumental cog in the Mumbai Indians machinery. However, over-dependence on a single batsman turns out to be fatal for any team and the same can be said about MI’s recent campaigns barring the last one. MI has had a lacklustre IPL campaign this time around with just 3 wins out of 9 matches.</p>
<p>MI’s match against the RCB, in particular, exposed Mumbai’s batting in the backdrop of Sharma’s failure to score a single run. Coupled with RCB’s surprisingly strong death bowling from Md. Siraj and Tim Southee that they might have underestimated given the previous inefficiency of the <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/surrey-pay-virat-kohli-nominal-match-fees-stint-county-championship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Virat Kohli</strong></a>-led side’s final over bowling, Mumbai were unable to battle their way to victory.</p>
<h3>4. Dropped catches from RCB against KKR</h3>
<figure id="attachment_246915" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-246915" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-246915" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli-RCB.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli RCB" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-246915" class="wp-caption-text">Virat Kohli. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>‘Catches win you matches’. RCB would’ve realised the importance of the statement in the most bitter way possible as dropped catches cost them a winnable encounter against the KKR in their own backyard. Chris Lynn, who was adjudged the ‘Player of the Match’ for his unbeaten knock worth 62 runs from 52 balls, was dropped by Murugan Ashwin in the fourth over, delivering a big blow to RCB’s chances of winning.</p>
<p>Add to that the failure to convert a couple of more half-chances into possible catches and sloppy fielding, RCB ended up gifting the match to KKR so much so that it prompted the response “If we field like that, we don’t deserve to win,” from Captain Kohli. Their weak death bowling didn’t help either as they conceded way too many runs in the last four overs.</p>
<h3>5. KXIP’s middle-order woes</h3>
<figure id="attachment_240788" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-240788" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-240788" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Aaron-Finch.jpg" alt="Aaron Finch" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-240788" class="wp-caption-text">Aaron Finch of KXIP. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>An IPL team containing the likes of Chris Gayle, KL Rahul, Yuvraj Singh and Karun Nair is expected and justified to depend heavily on their batting abilities. However, that didn’t happen for KXIP in Friday’s match against the Mumbai Indians. In spite of a good start from Gayle (50) and Rahul (24), KXIP middle-order were unable to convert it into something substantial. A run-a-ball inning from Singh slowed down the innings considerably.</p>
<p>As a result, the quickfire innings from Marcus Stoinis worth 29 runs off 15 balls came in too late to get KXIP to a defendable total. In reply to the target of 175 runs, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/we-will-look-to-ride-the-winning-momentum-from-here-on-suryakumar-yadav/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Suryakumar Yadav</strong></a> (57) put up a stiff resistance from the Mumbai Indians side and KXIP’s inability to devise a solution for his feisty batting left them reeling at the end of the match as MI won the match by 6 wickets.</p>

<p>With the fourth week of the Indian Premier League (IPL) coming to an end, there hasn&#8217;t been much change in the top half of the table. However, not all teams have been faultless. While teams like Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have continued to dominate, there have been a few slip-ups from the <strong>Chennai Super Kings (CSK)</strong> and the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), that has cost them a match apiece.</p>
<p>The margin for error is fast diminishing for all teams, considering that the group stage is about to draw to a close. The bottom half of the table is looking to concentrate on winning every encounter remaining while the top teams are aspiring to maintain consistency. This week has seen some of the most high-octane encounters of the entire tournament. Let&#8217;s take a look at the 5 biggest follies teams committed in the fourth week of IPL 2018.</p>
<h3>1. Dropped catches from CSK against KKR</h3>
<figure id="attachment_247772" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-247772" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-247772" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Ravindra-Jadeja.jpg" alt="Ravindra Jadeja drops a sitter" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-247772" class="wp-caption-text">Ravindra Jadeja drops a sitter. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Sunil Narine has probably been KKR&#8217;s major impact player since the last season and he&#8217;s carried that streak forward into the ongoing edition of the tournament. As a player, the Caribbean spinner hits those blistering boundaries and sixes that gives his team the ideal start to combat big scores. Hence, dropping such a major player twice in two consecutive deliveries was bound to cost CSK the match and so it did.</p>
<p>The encounter between KKR and CSK saw the latter further lose the grip on the match when they were unable to restrain young <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/kkr-spinner-piyush-chawla-lauds-shubman-gill-calls-him-a-special-talent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Shubman Gill</strong></a>. At a score of 64-3 with Chris Lynn and Robin Uthappa both back in the pavilion, KKR had been struggling to get a foothold in the game when Gill hit a sensational unbeaten half-century and wedged the door wide open for his side. CSK&#8217;s inability to get him out turned out to be one of the major reasons for their defeat.</p>
<h3>2. Lack of contribution from Rajasthan Royals middle-order batsmen</h3>
<figure id="attachment_239298" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-239298" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-239298" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Ben-Stokes-1.jpg" alt="Ben Stokes of Rajasthan Royals" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-239298" class="wp-caption-text">Ben Stokes of Rajasthan Royals. (Photo by Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>A rain-curtailed match always calls for good performances in all three departments of the game for a team to win the game, since overs getting reduced always has the chance of heaping pressure on the teams. The team that&#8217;s able to handle the pressure better most often emerges as the winner. Unfortunately for the Rajasthan Royals, the pressure got the better of them against the Delhi Daredevils (DD).</p>
<p>Batting first, DD got good knocks from the young trio of Shreyas Iyer-Rishabh Pant-<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2018-prithvi-shaw-reminds-mark-waugh-of-sachin-tendulkar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Prithvi Shaw</strong> </a>that took them to 196 runs. Chasing the mammoth total, the RR middle-order was unable to consolidate on the start provided by D Arcy Short (44) and Jos Buttler (67). The abject failure of the RR middle order with 3 single-digit scores from the likes of Sanju Samson and Ben Stokes took the game away from them.</p>
<h3>3. Mumbai Indians&#8217; over-dependence on Rohit Sharma</h3>
<figure id="attachment_247991" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-247991" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-247991" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Rohit-Sharma.jpg" alt="Rohit Sharma" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-247991" class="wp-caption-text">Mumbai Indians&#8217; Rohit Sharma in action. (Photo by IANS)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Rohit Sharma is no doubt an instrumental cog in the Mumbai Indians machinery. However, over-dependence on a single batsman turns out to be fatal for any team and the same can be said about MI&#8217;s recent campaigns barring the last one. MI has had a lacklustre IPL campaign this time around with just 3 wins out of 9 matches.</p>
<p>MI&#8217;s match against the RCB, in particular, exposed Mumbai&#8217;s batting in the backdrop of Sharma&#8217;s failure to score a single run. Coupled with RCB&#8217;s surprisingly strong death bowling from Md. Siraj and Tim Southee that they might have underestimated given the previous inefficiency of the <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/surrey-pay-virat-kohli-nominal-match-fees-stint-county-championship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Virat Kohli</strong></a>-led side&#8217;s final over bowling, Mumbai were unable to battle their way to victory.</p>
<h3>4. Dropped catches from RCB against KKR</h3>
<figure id="attachment_246915" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-246915" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-246915" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli-RCB.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli RCB" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-246915" class="wp-caption-text">Virat Kohli. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>&#8216;Catches win you matches&#8217;. RCB would&#8217;ve realised the importance of the statement in the most bitter way possible as dropped catches cost them a winnable encounter against the KKR in their own backyard. Chris Lynn, who was adjudged the &#8216;Player of the Match&#8217; for his unbeaten knock worth 62 runs from 52 balls, was dropped by Murugan Ashwin in the fourth over, delivering a big blow to RCB&#8217;s chances of winning.</p>
<p>Add to that the failure to convert a couple of more half-chances into possible catches and sloppy fielding, RCB ended up gifting the match to KKR so much so that it prompted the response &#8220;If we field like that, we don&#8217;t deserve to win,&#8221; from Captain Kohli. Their weak death bowling didn&#8217;t help either as they conceded way too many runs in the last four overs.</p>
<h3>5. KXIP&#8217;s middle-order woes</h3>
<figure id="attachment_240788" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-240788" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-240788" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Aaron-Finch.jpg" alt="Aaron Finch" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-240788" class="wp-caption-text">Aaron Finch of KXIP. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>An IPL team containing the likes of Chris Gayle, KL Rahul, Yuvraj Singh and Karun Nair is expected and justified to depend heavily on their batting abilities. However, that didn&#8217;t happen for KXIP in Friday&#8217;s match against the Mumbai Indians. In spite of a good start from Gayle (50) and Rahul (24), KXIP middle-order were unable to convert it into something substantial. A run-a-ball inning from Singh slowed down the innings considerably.</p>
<p>As a result, the quickfire innings from Marcus Stoinis worth 29 runs off 15 balls came in too late to get KXIP to a defendable total. In reply to the target of 175 runs, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/we-will-look-to-ride-the-winning-momentum-from-here-on-suryakumar-yadav/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Suryakumar Yadav</strong></a> (57) put up a stiff resistance from the Mumbai Indians side and KXIP&#8217;s inability to devise a solution for his feisty batting left them reeling at the end of the match as MI won the match by 6 wickets.</p>

The margin for error is fast diminishing for all teams, considering that the group stage is about to draw to a close.

IPL 2018: Five Biggest mistakes teams committed in the fourth week

With the fourth week of the Indian Premier League (IPL) coming to an end, there hasn't been much change in the top half of the table. However