MUMBAI: There's not much in the Mumbai Indians' bowling attack and they need to improve in that department of the game, West Indian legend Brian Lara said in his IP match against the Chennai Super Kings here. Said after losing to Kings by 20 runs.
Bumrah (0/27 in 4 overs) had an ordinary day against CSK considering the high standards he had set for himself and skipper Hardik Pandya being hit for three consecutive sixes by the peerless MS Dhoni as MI won the match on Sunday. The match was lost at home that night.
“Not much, I think when we look at Mumbai Indians, a lot of people consider them favorites, just because they were batting so well, they scored 230 runs, chasing 196 looked very easy Was, 15 overs, so on that fact I think, we will pick them as favourites,” Lara said on Star Sports' Cricket Live show.
"But their bowling is poor. Apart from Jasprit Bumrah, there is no one to support them in that bowling attack, and the CSK batsmen took them apart.,
MI did not use their spinners after the eighth over as Shivam Dubey, who has performed impressively against the slow bowlers, was at the crease.
"The spinners, they bowled only 4 overs at almost 7 runs an over, but they were not trusted with Shivam Dubey. So, MI have to improve in that area, they have to find some bowlers, match-winning bowlers, '' said the great batsman.
“It tells me more about the game that, if you have a good bowling unit like CSK, you look at their bowling, every single bowler played a role in that game, every single bowler.
“At that time we had dot balls, we thought Mumbai Indians should not have shown the pace, but they did not.,
Lara said about Pandya's three consecutive sixes in the last over, "For me, it was tough for Hardik Pandya, I think he transformed himself in the last few overs, the master (MS Dhoni) did it, you You know, three sixes in the last 4 balls.”
Sri Lankan Mathisha Pathirana (4/28) was among the pick of the CSK bowlers as they restricted MI to 186 for 6 in 20 overs, 21 runs short of the winning target, and former England captain Kevin Pietersen bowled an "unconventional" right-handed spell. Praised the arm fast bowler.
"Very unorthodox, and with unconventional bowlers you sometimes have to get your differential down, as they say, because you have to get used to his delivery, and you have to get used to where the ball is coming from. , Because it is not normal and normal, and it is abnormal.
"So, you have to bide your time... when he is bowling so beautifully with the old ball, and he also has this amazing ability to not just reverse the swing ball, but he has the ability to reverse and dip the ball. The potential is there, and it's a pretty tough ball."
Pietersen compared Pathirana to Sri Lankan great Lasith Malinga, who is currently the bowling coach with M.He said, "It was something that Malinga also had, it was reverse, but it was reverse in, it was reverse down, and it's always going away from the angle where you're trying to hit the ball. Are."
"When you have a bowler who is coming at an angle, but it is not coming at a natural angle, it is coming at an angle that really starts to fall on you then you are not really playing the sweep. Can't, you can't play the ramp, because it will come under your bat, and then it becomes difficult to even hit it on the ground, this is a gem for CSK, what a bowler."
Bumrah (0/27 in 4 overs) had an ordinary day against CSK considering the high standards he had set for himself and skipper Hardik Pandya being hit for three consecutive sixes by the peerless MS Dhoni as MI won the match on Sunday. The match was lost at home that night.
“Not much, I think when we look at Mumbai Indians, a lot of people consider them favorites, just because they were batting so well, they scored 230 runs, chasing 196 looked very easy Was, 15 overs, so on that fact I think, we will pick them as favourites,” Lara said on Star Sports' Cricket Live show.
"But their bowling is poor. Apart from Jasprit Bumrah, there is no one to support them in that bowling attack, and the CSK batsmen took them apart.,
MI did not use their spinners after the eighth over as Shivam Dubey, who has performed impressively against the slow bowlers, was at the crease.
"The spinners, they bowled only 4 overs at almost 7 runs an over, but they were not trusted with Shivam Dubey. So, MI have to improve in that area, they have to find some bowlers, match-winning bowlers, '' said the great batsman.
“It tells me more about the game that, if you have a good bowling unit like CSK, you look at their bowling, every single bowler played a role in that game, every single bowler.
“At that time we had dot balls, we thought Mumbai Indians should not have shown the pace, but they did not.,
Lara said about Pandya's three consecutive sixes in the last over, "For me, it was tough for Hardik Pandya, I think he transformed himself in the last few overs, the master (MS Dhoni) did it, you You know, three sixes in the last 4 balls.”
Sri Lankan Mathisha Pathirana (4/28) was among the pick of the CSK bowlers as they restricted MI to 186 for 6 in 20 overs, 21 runs short of the winning target, and former England captain Kevin Pietersen bowled an "unconventional" right-handed spell. Praised the arm fast bowler.
"Very unorthodox, and with unconventional bowlers you sometimes have to get your differential down, as they say, because you have to get used to his delivery, and you have to get used to where the ball is coming from. , Because it is not normal and normal, and it is abnormal.
"So, you have to bide your time... when he is bowling so beautifully with the old ball, and he also has this amazing ability to not just reverse the swing ball, but he has the ability to reverse and dip the ball. The potential is there, and it's a pretty tough ball."
Pietersen compared Pathirana to Sri Lankan great Lasith Malinga, who is currently the bowling coach with M.He said, "It was something that Malinga also had, it was reverse, but it was reverse in, it was reverse down, and it's always going away from the angle where you're trying to hit the ball. Are."
"When you have a bowler who is coming at an angle, but it is not coming at a natural angle, it is coming at an angle that really starts to fall on you then you are not really playing the sweep. Can't, you can't play the ramp, because it will come under your bat, and then it becomes difficult to even hit it on the ground, this is a gem for CSK, what a bowler."
