Cricket
A captain under pressure, a match almost won, then, in the final moments of GT vs RCB, everything changed unexpectedly. What went wrong at the end?
GT were slowly crawling back in the game and looked set to win, but the match quickly turned and slipped out of their hands in the final moments.
Virender Sehwag called out the captain, asking, “Have you lost courage?” His blunt remark quickly got fans and experts talking.
"When 22-25 runs were needed off the last three overs, and if Mohammed Siraj had come in at that stage and got a wicket, maybe it would have been 20 needed off 2 overs, and who knows what would have happened from there. They could have atleast taken the game to the last over. The match did not even go till the final over," Virender Sehwag said on Cricbuzz.
"I think the calculations were slightly wrong from the captain there. Fine, Prasidh Krishna and Rashid Khan got hit for runs, but it is the captain's job to bring them back into the attack. If you think that you cannot use a bowler because he has conceded 31 runs off two overs, then you have lost courage, right? That means you have given up. I think that was the mistake there," he added.
"I mean, at the end of the powerplay, I think we were in a good position. It was all about taking wickets in the middle overs, which I think we were not able to just after the powerplay got over," GT captain Shubman Gill said during the post-match presentation.
Is this just a learning moment for Gill, or will it affect GT’s season? The next few matches will show what this means for the team.