IPL 2024: Gujarat captain Subman Gill expressed anguish over the defeat against Delhi team.
The league matches of this year’s IPL series are going on briskly. Almost every team has played 8 matches each. In this context, the Delhi team led by Rishabh Pant and the Gujarat team led by Subman Gill clashed yesterday.
As both these teams are at the bottom of the points table, winning this match is seen as crucial. Accordingly, Delhi, who batted first, played aggressively and accumulated 224 runs at the end of 20 overs. After this, the Gujarat team fought till the end but they did not win. The Gujarat team missed out on the win by a thread.
Accordingly, the Gujarat team scored 220 runs at the end of 20 overs and lost. Gujarat captain Subman Gill spoke openly after this defeat. “We played some good cricket,” he said. It is disappointing to lose at the end after playing good cricket. However, it is a credit to our teammates that they fought till the end.
At no point in this match did we think victory was off target. There is no point in talking about plans when playing towards a Himalayan target of 224 runs. If you get on the field, you have to play by hitting. An impact player has little role to play when playing towards such a goal.
Even with the loss of successive wickets, the batsmen will have to keep on batting. At one stage, we thought we could restrict Delhi to 200-210, but we gave away too many runs in the last 2-3 overs. Besides, it’s a small stadium.
We also thought that a high score would come. So having a good opening or settling batsman and finisher would be a good result. So it is important to get all your plans right in such a stadium.