Mumbai Indians held their nerves as Kolkata Knight Riders capitulated from a winning position to hand the five-time champions a 10-run win in Chennai today.
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00:00I just don't know what they've lost. And now who to blame? You know, you can blame I think every batsman in the Nitrider squad today, for sure.
00:07Pick one batsman, your favourite batsman you want to blame, who messed up the whole game.
00:20Hello, hello guys and welcome once again to Street Bats with Mr Cricket UAE, Anas Sajan.
00:27We're joined again by his son Suhail and Gautam Bhattacharya from India.
00:32I'm Matt Smith and we had a thrilling match again today, but we'll go quickly to Anas so you can see his quick greetings.
00:41First of all, before I answer this question, Matt, I want all our followers of Gulf News to go onto a page and click the contest.
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00:55Now coming to that question, which I remember in the mid-break, I had mentioned that this would be a close match, but I expected KKR to do it.
01:05But the reason for them not doing it again and again is that they get bullied by this opposition, Mumbai Indians, and they have created Harakiri from a winning position.
01:16The way that I saw, obviously, Mumbai had a bit of a rocky old-time 1-5-2, it's not the highest score in the world.
01:23KKR obviously got off to a great start, the two openers getting good, solid scores, but then every single other batsman failing to get into double-quickers.
01:34Is there an issue with their strength and depth?
01:38If you have to ask me, the batting is good, but it's just that they all wanted to play glory shots.
01:44It all started with Gill throwing it away, then Skipper Morgan throwing it away, Shakib Ul Hasan throwing it away, and then Nitish Rana.
01:53When you know you have lost experienced players, your job is not done till you have finished the game.
01:57And I'm sure Gautam must be sulking, I don't know what Gautam will be feeling, but I believe there is a dialogue in Hindi which Shah Rukh Khan always says,
02:06that the one who wins by losing is called a batsman.
02:09I would put it in the language which Gautam would like to say, that the one who loses a winning match is called a KKR against Mumbai Indians.
02:16Gautam, your comment on it?
02:21Do we have Gautam?
02:22Yes, yes.
02:25Do you want to respond to this?
02:27Yes, yes. I think, see basically, as I think you summed it up aptly, it was Armin Diening's Harakiri, I mean, to throw away these wickets to Rahul Chahar.
02:40Mumbai on their part, I mean, they win matches in two ways.
02:44One is, either they, you know, with that kind of, they have got a very complete batting lineup, which didn't click today.
02:52It's not very often that you see them getting all out.
02:55But either they take it to about 135-140 and in the last five overs, take it to 180-190 and then choke the opposition.
03:04That's how they do it.
03:05But there are any number of matches which they won by defending.
03:14Yeah.
03:17Possibly one of their best chances to turn the tables today.
03:22All right.
03:23And Sahil, what's your take on the game?
03:26Oh, devastating match to watch, you know.
03:29Me being a Kolkata Night Riders supporter, it was not a fun game to watch, you know.
03:34I just don't know how they've lost.
03:36And now who to blame?
03:37You know, you can blame, I think, every batsman in the Night Riders squad today, for sure.
03:42Pick one batsman, your favourite batsman you want to blame, who messed up the whole game.
03:47You know, how can I blame?
03:49You know, I would want to blame Andre Russell.
03:51But then you can say, oh, he got five wickets today.
03:53So, who do you want to blame?
03:54I think you should just blame…
03:55What about your skipper?
03:56Yeah, what about your skipper?
03:59Captain Owen Morgan, yeah.
04:01He should have done better, you know, being a veteran in the game.
04:04He should have taken the game till the end.
04:06But he got out early, threw his wicket away.
04:08You guys can't beat us.
04:09Let's accept the fact Mumbai Indians are the daddies and you can't beat us.
04:12So, you think about pitting other opposition.
04:15Gautam, you too.
04:16You're wearing a cap.
04:18I agree about never beating Mumbai Indians.
04:21Who's doing the bullying now?
04:22I've never seen Anas with a bigger smile on his face than right now.
04:25I love it. I love it.
04:29Okay, well, we'll move slightly further ahead.
04:32Obviously, RCB are back in action tomorrow.
04:35Do we see Kohli and Koh keeping their good run start, from their good start going?
04:42When they get up against Dave Warner?
04:45They must be confident after that narrow win against Mumbai Indians.
04:48And Sunrisers are coming on the back for defeat.
04:51So, obviously, going into tomorrow's match, tails up for RCB and Virat Kohli.
04:57Do we think they'll get a second one on the board and they'll build from there as the season goes on?
05:02Nothing can be guaranteed, Matt.
05:03Nothing can be guaranteed.
05:04But I'm sure Gautam will have his take on it.
05:07I think they'll keep RCB slightly ahead in this game.
05:30Some net issues, I guess, Matt.
05:32Yeah, connectivity there from India.
05:35Sahil, who do you fancy tomorrow?
05:37I believe KKR are still sulking and so is Gautam.
05:40So, the connectivity automatically goes away.
05:43They've pulled the plug on the internet in the middle of Kolkata.
05:46Sahil, who do you fancy tomorrow?
05:50Honestly, I cannot say because, yes, RCB won their first game.
05:53But Sunrisers will be desperate to win the next game because they lost their first game.
05:59And, you know, both have good foreign players.
06:02So, you know, I don't know who will win.
06:04I guess I will be supporting RCB.
06:06So, I hope for them to win.
06:09And there's some interesting news that came out just a little bit off topic from Rajasthan today.
06:14Joffrey Archer is back in training.
06:17So, there's still a glimmer of hope that he might appear for them.
06:21So, obviously, after their narrow loss last night, they might be able to, you know,
06:27get a little bit of optimism for the future on their side as well.
06:31Well, they've lost Ben Stokes today.
06:33So, that's a big, big, big blow.
06:36That's the breaking news.
06:37They've got Ben Stokes.
06:38Supposedly, he's fractured his hand.
06:41So, if that happens, then really…
06:43Because you don't know when Archer is going to come back.
06:45Because now he's under ECB.
06:47Correct.
06:48Correct.
06:50He's just under late training is what they said.
06:53I don't see him coming in the first seven games.
06:57I don't see him coming in the first seven games.
07:02Well, the other thing that was just so quickly,
07:04Quinton Tukop came in to replace Chris Lynn this evening
07:08after Lynn had a great first match.
07:11Was that a right decision, given that they got over the line but the score was not great?
07:16Today, now you can debate that, yes.
07:18How do you drop a guy who scored 49-odd runs quickly
07:22and then get a guy who's just come out of quarantine and make it play?
07:26If Quinton Tukop would have scored, we wouldn't have said that.
07:28But they probably wanted to back their wicket-keeper batsman who has done so well.
07:33Whereas Chris Lynn is an iffy player.
07:34If he gets going, he gets going.
07:36Quinton Tukop, not only does he add stability with the wicket-keeping,
07:39but has proved in the last few years that he is the man you can back more compared to Chris Lynn.
07:45So, more Mr Dependable?
07:47Yes. Like Surya Kumar Yadav.
07:50He's a guy, I think today, if you have to pick one player in the Indian team,
07:54he's Mr Consistent.
07:56And the man of the match this evening, who do you think?
07:59That I think my son can answer it or Gautam and any of them can take this call.
08:02We all know who is the man of the match.
08:05We'll make Andre Wessel the man of the match.
08:08I got five-four.
08:11I'll leave it to Sahil.
08:13I mean, it's got to be Rahul Chahar.
08:16No, no, but let's give it to Andre Wessel, Gautam, just to make you all happy.
08:20Let's make ATR fans happy.
08:22No, they can share it.
08:24They can share it.
08:26Today, I've got a lot of chance to bully you guys.
08:30Oh, you wait and see.
08:32Next time, your boys, Liz, they'll be coming to get you.
08:35Oh, I'm waiting for it.
08:36I'm waiting.
08:38How many matches?
08:39It's now, the record is 22 to 6 or 7.
08:42How many is it, Gautam?
08:43Yeah, yeah.
08:44And 22 to 6.
08:46And out of that, out of the last 12 games, I think they've won 11.
08:51Fine. Yeah.
08:52So that tells you its own story.
08:54Sahil, are you going to sleep well tonight?
08:57Yeah, I think I'll get good sleep because it's just games.
08:59It doesn't really matter.
09:01It doesn't matter?
09:02I thought you'd hung up already.
09:04I thought you'd hung up already.
09:06Anyway, all good fun in life, Ankur.
09:09Happens, happens.
09:10Indeed.
09:11It's only a game at the end of the day, except for in India.
09:16Okay, so that's great, guys.
09:17That was a great chat tonight.
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09:33Thanks to Sahil, to Anis, and to Gautam tonight for a chat,
09:36and we'll see you all again tomorrow.
09:38See you, guys. Take care.
09:40Love you. Bye.
09:42Bye.
09:48Bye.