VISAKHAPATNAM, India, CMC-West Indies allrounder Kieron Pollard wants his franchise Mumbai Indians to forget their excruciating loss to Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL) yesterday.
Mumbai crashed to a massive 85-run defeat to Sunrisers at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam
They were bowled out for 92 in 16.3 overs, the lowest total of the season, after Sunrisers posted 177 for three in their 20 overs.
“To be honest, sometimes in these sort of games you can find many a faults and at the end of the day we come to play cricket we come to give a 100 percent,” said Pollard in the post-game news conference.
“Today is one of the games where we don’t want to actually pin point anything. We just want to actually forget it”.
Sunriser’s innings were given momentum from a solid opening stand between David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan which yielded 85 runs.
Dhawan was not out on 82 while early aggressor Warner was caught by pollard two runs short of his half century.
“This is the back end of the tournament and we need guys confidence we don’t need guys with their heads down now,” said Pollard who scored 11, one of only three batsmen to post low double digit figures.
“We don’t need people to be playing the blame game at this point in time. We need all hands on deck in order to get through the back end of the tournament”.
Ashish Nehra three for 15 and Mustafizur Rahman three for 16 were the main destroyers of Mumbai’s innings.
“For me personally I think it’s one of those things we just have to forget,” said the West Indies cricketer.
“We will sit down again at look at the performances, look at how the wicket behave. See how we need to improve”.
Sunrisers huge win has taken them to the top of the IPL table.
