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00:00It's a brilliant win for Delhi and I would say they played true to their potential.
00:14Hello everyone. This is The Straight Bad with Gulf News and Mr Cricket UAE. That is Anish
00:19Sajjan. Anish Sajjan is not with us today but we have with us Gulf News Sports Editor Satish
00:25and Delhi Capital supporter Sangeet Jain who is a very happy man today. So Satish,
00:32tell us about the match today. It's a brilliant win for Delhi and I would say they played true
00:40to their potential and the toss helped them and a few catches and close up. The luck was also in
00:46their favour and more importantly Sanjay Samson also played into the hands of Delhi. So I would
00:54leave it at that right now because Sanjay also helped Delhi in a way to win this match. So that's
01:02my take right now. Sangeet Jain, you are a Delhi supporter. Tell us your impressions of today's
01:11game and what does this win mean for Delhi? So if you look at the points table right now,
01:18Delhi is currently placed at the fifth position right now and you know by winning this game,
01:23they are still in the tournament. Like if you look at it in the way that if they might have
01:27lost this match, so it would have been you know 10 points for them in like 12 games and RCB is
01:33currently at 14 points. So you know it would have been almost impossible for them to get into the
01:39points table as you know they would have wanted to get into the points table only when RCB would
01:45have lost too. You know they would have to depend on them but now you know after winning this match,
01:50Delhi has kept themselves alive in the tournament. So this is definitely very
01:55important match for them in this way and I'm sure Mitchell Marsh and David Warner, you know the two
02:01men who finished the game for Delhi which is a brilliant partnership between both of them
02:06over 100 runs. So they would take in a lot of confidence and the Delhi you know camp
02:11could be really happy. You know the coaches like Ricky Ponting and all. So yeah.
02:16Okay. Sadesh, let me go to the elephant in the room. The conversation which was revolving
02:23around Ashwin's elevation to number three. Do you think it was a mistake?
02:28Cham Ashwin, I'm not taking anything away from Ashwin. He's a great player and a very good
02:33all-rounder. I like him and he did what he could do. He got a 50. But the point is when Sanju
02:40himself is a better batsman between the two, we all know who's a better batsman. Whether it is
02:44Sanju or Ashwin, even I think anybody would vouch for Sanju. And what the wicket also
02:51showed is if the batter and rather not just today, over the last few matches or the last one
02:57week if you look at, the key should be to play longer innings and play deep. The team that plays
03:03or one batsman should play longer. Yesterday the same way it happened to Gujarat where Gill
03:10played till the end. So if that is the situation, Sanju should be the best person to do that. He
03:16should have come in instead of Ashwin. Yes, they were one batter short. Hetmeyer was not there.
03:21But he should trust himself. And he's such a great talent. Why would he have to come
03:27after Ashwin almost to the last four or five overs? Thankfully, it was the Devdutt Padikkal's
03:33knock that gave them, even took them to 160. If he had not played that kind of a knock,
03:38where he came and started hitting every ball and he found that timing right,
03:42Rajasthan would have finished much lower than this total.
03:48Sanket, you must have been very, very happy with the Delhi bowling today.
03:52Because they got Butler out early. Not just that. When Ashwin threatened to do some pinch-hitting,
03:59they managed to play the breaks, especially in the middle-orders with Kuldeep Piyadho by bowling
04:07a string of very good overs. Yeah, definitely. Delhi bowled really well today in comparison to
04:12the matches earlier. Because if you look at the matches earlier, they've been conceding
04:16200 runs and over. So, you know, that's a huge improvement. If you look at that,
04:21160 runs total, it's pretty nice. I mean, you expect that much from all the teams.
04:26And the main bowler, I feel, who, you know, really stood up today was Chetan Sakaria,
04:30because he came in as a replacement for the injured Khalil Ahmed. So, you know,
04:35Khalil has been bowling really well in this tournament. But Chetan Sakaria, you know,
04:40he has not had the best of tournaments till now before this match. And, you know, he's really
04:44stepped into the correct shoes and, you know, bowled really well, taken up the responsibility.
04:49And yeah, he really swung the ball in the start, took the main wicket of Butler, you know, who is
04:53the danger man. Because in the first match earlier, when Delhi versus Rajasthan, Butler scored a
04:59magnificent 100 over there, you know, and took the game away from Delhi. So, this is what I feel,
05:04you know, just made the difference in the game.
05:07Okay, Satish, again, coming back to the Ashwin thing, I just,
05:10you can't escape that thing, simply because
05:15if you look at the scoring rate, Ashwin's knock of 50, exactly 50, came off 38 balls.
05:22If you look at Mitchell Marsh at the stage, he was also scoring at the same rate till he
05:28powered towards the end. So, at 50, Mitchell Marsh and Ashwin were almost going in the scoring
05:36rate. So, what was the difference here? See, the difference was, we know that once the field
05:42was spread, Ashwin will not be able to take it that far. Because he himself, one retirement,
05:50if you look at, he got retired out because probably he was not able to push it further.
05:55Okay, let me ask you this way. Should he have retired early?
05:59Yes, maybe yes. But again, that wouldn't have helped, Shyam. Because here, the wickets,
06:03one batter has to bat longer and deeper. Like almost, the said batsman has to keep one end up
06:09and you have to start hitting. If you look at, Warner was there on the other side, probably he
06:14had a lesser scoring rate or lesser strike rate than Ashwin himself. But he was holding one end
06:19up. And after a point in time, Mitchell Marsh started attacking. So, that's the way the strategy
06:25should have been. But you can't go both ends. For sure, you can't go both ends. At the same time,
06:31you can't go both ends defensively as well. So, if Ashwin had been sent up…
06:35In that case, Padikkal should have started earlier, right?
06:40No, Padikkal came and started earlier. But by the time he came, and I think he came around the
06:4412th over, if I remember right. Or 9th over he came in. The moment he came in,
06:51the moment he came in, he started hitting and that's where the scoring rate also improved.
06:55If you look at, after the power play, the run rate dropped. It dipped and Ashwin was almost a
07:01runner ball at that point of time. Then when Padikkal started hitting, Ashwin also started
07:06increasing his tempo and went there. That's how the chart has gone through. And that's the dip
07:12has cost them 15 runs, which Sanju said they were 15 runs short. But that's the dip that cost them.
07:20That 15 runs must have been, must have come from a hitman, right? Because
07:26Van Der Doosan struggled to put back the ball.
07:29That's because you can't come and hit, Shyam. It's very difficult wicket to come and play your
07:34shots immediately. But once you know the pace, once you know the bounce, once you assess everything,
07:40how the wicket behaves, then it becomes easier. That's what Mitchell Marsh and Warner did. And of
07:46course, when there were 17 runs, Pant can come and hit and play those shots because he's very
07:51good at that. But I would say, if they had sent Ashwin, they should have told him, you bat till
07:57the end, don't get out in the middle. Or they should have retired him earlier or maybe no.
08:02But ideally, I would say Sanju should have come in straight and simple.
08:06Yeah, we'll come back to that a little later because that is still hanging fire.
08:11So just to quickly switch back to Delhi. Sanketh, tell us what was going through your
08:18mind when they lost Bharat in the second ball of the match? Not just that, Marsh struggled
08:25very much initially against Trent Bowles, I mean, accuracy and movement.
08:30Yeah, definitely. When Shikha Bharat got out in the second ball, I guess all Delhi fans got a
08:37feeling this match also got out of the hand. Because if you look at it, Marsh has not been,
08:43till this point of time, Marsh in the tournament, he's not made any big runs. He's maximum played
08:48in the 20s or 30s. He hasn't gone beyond that. Yeah, you know David Warner is there, definitely.
08:54Pant also has not got up to his best form. So when Shikha Bharat got out on the very second
08:59ball, and also how Trent Bowles bowled. So definitely, all Delhi fans must have
09:04thinking that this match also went out of hand. And I would like to say that the main reason for
09:10this is Prithvi Shaw's injury, like his health. Basically, when Prithvi Shaw was there earlier,
09:17opening with David Warner, this was one of the best opening partnerships in the tournament.
09:22I mean, the way both of those batsmen were batting together, they were great. They had
09:27all the firepower at the start, and they were just taking the bowlers apart. But since Prithvi
09:34Shaw has gone, Delhi has experimented with Mandeep Singh, and it did not work out. Then
09:38they tried with Shikha Bharat. And today, as you can see, again, it did not work out with him. It
09:43was his second innings. So Delhi really need to do something for their opening pair, even for the
09:49upcoming matches. But yeah, definitely, it is commendable as to how Warner and Mitch Marsh,
09:55you know, they stabilized, no matter how many scares they were at the beginning.
09:59But you can see in the middle overs, the way they, you know, batted, it was really good and,
10:03you know, helped Delhi to win the game. Satish, this batting was not very easy,
10:09because you saw the pacemen and the spinners getting some kind of tackiness on the pitch.
10:16Could Rajasthan have done anything differently to defend 160?
10:21Chum, they did the best, but I think it was a smart batting by Mitchell Marsh and David Warner.
10:28If you look at even in the midway after the Rajasthan innings, when Marsh was asked about
10:36how you're going to set the chase, he said hitting fours are difficult, big shots, you can't play
10:43big shots. So you need to run hard. So he had already planned it. So what has happened is,
10:49they started running hard and to cut the second run, the fielders were five yards inside. So the
10:55catchers were going over their heads. So it's a brilliant, smart batting. And I just checked it.
11:01Mitchell Marsh has scored 89 runs, of which he scored seven sixes and five fours. Between 62
11:08runs came off 12 balls. And the rest of the 27 runs came in 50 deliveries. So it was a very
11:15calculated assault. And they took their time. They were not in a hurry. They knew how the wicket
11:20behaved. And that's precisely what somebody like Sanju Uda should have done. He should have
11:26stayed there. He can play shots like nobody, Chum. He is probably one of the best batters
11:32talent-wise. But somehow the Rajasthan team management is not getting their act together.
11:38And Ashwin can be a great all-rounder. I like him. He is a brilliant player. But he can't be
11:45a pinch-hitter. And number three is not his slot. And I think with Sanju Samson around, he should
11:50have been up front. We'll come back to this again, Sathesh. Because there's still a lot to be said
11:59about that. But Sanket, tell me about Warner's inning. He struggled throughout. He was struggling
12:07to put bat to ball. He was bold. But the bail didn't come off. And that first over of Chahal
12:15was a nightmare for Warner. But he still stuck around. And reminds me of the work of when
12:23Mitchell Mosh and Warner took them home against Pakistan. Yeah, definitely. Warner did struggle
12:33at the beginning. And it was mainly because of the pitch. You could see that a lot of balls from
12:39Trent Boult and Prasidh Krishna, they had a lot of extra bounce. And Warner, his expression showed
12:46all of it. And as you said that he was not able to put bat on ball. But we all know how experienced
12:54David Warner is. He's played all around the world. He's a fantastic batsman in all the three formats.
12:59So his experience, I think, was the main factor. Because he knew that no matter what,
13:05he needs to play at a calculated rate. He saw how Mitchell Mosh was playing aggressive on
13:10the other end. And he gave him as much support as possible. He ran hard between the wickets.
13:16So yeah, that is. And yeah, definitely what you're talking about Chahal's ball to him,
13:22where he got bold, the stumps did light up. But the bails did not follow. I mean, that's,
13:27you can say the extra luck that Delhi really needed today, despite everything that's been
13:31happening with them throughout the season. So they really needed this. And probably this
13:37really helped them. And let's see how it turns out. Yeah. Before we wind up, Sajeesh, one more
13:44thing about the Rajasthan thinking. Tell me what is exactly Rajasthan Royals management thinking?
13:52Because this is not the first time they have pushed Ashwin up the order. Because
13:58if you look at every side, they would rather have their best batsman consume the maximum number of
14:04balls. See, if you look at here, how many… I mean, Sanju came when there was four hours left,
14:12which means he has to get going from the ball one. So was Riyan Parag for that matter.
14:18Even Vanda Doosan is somebody who needs time in the middle to get going. So that was a completely
14:24dodgy strategy from Rajasthan Royals. But they continue to do this. Why do they do this?
14:31It beats me, Shyam. I think what has happened is, generally when Butler fails… I think that's
14:38where I think… No, even when Butler was there, they sent Ashwin one game. Maybe when the wicket
14:44falls in the power play overs, they are looking at sending Ashwin as a pinch hitter to take
14:49advantage of the infield to get some quick runs. Yes, that could be a fair strategy. But
14:56when the wickets are good… But if that is a strategy, that backfired because he stayed far
15:00too long. Correct. Absolutely. Absolutely. And you can't blame him because the wicket was not
15:06conducive for even the best of best batters are struggling. True. So you can't expect a guy who
15:11is predominantly a bowling all-rounder to come and… He can be good with his defence and technique.
15:17But he is not as a T20 player. Despite that, he did quite well to get his first 50 in IPL.
15:25Well done to him. But had Sanju been there, maybe he would have got that under 20 runs or 25 runs
15:31which would have put that extra pressure on Delhi so that they would have done some mistake. Shyam,
15:37without pressure, cricket is nothing. Unless you put pressure on the opponents, you can't win
15:42anything. So that 160 was almost reachable score. Maybe 175, 180 would have been given that little
15:51urgency in Warner and Marsh where they would have made some mistakes and things could have gone
15:55differently. I completely agree there with this. And before we wind up, here is a little
16:03something for our readers. We have a contest for readers to guess the winners every day.
16:09If you pick the winners correctly, each of the winners will walk away with three prizes.
16:16That is a cricket apparel from Mr Cricket UAE and a Gulf News digital subscription and an
16:21entertainment voucher worth 500. That is if you pick correctly. And picking correctly
16:28has not been easy so far. And yesterday, all three of us picked Rajasthan to win and only
16:35Anil picked Delhi to win. So picking is not easy. So let's try and pick the winners for
16:43tomorrow's game. That is Chennai Super Kings playing Mumbai Indians, two former champions
16:50with nine titles between them but struggling to make an impact in this tournament. So Sanket,
16:56you go first. Who will win tomorrow? So based on how both the teams have gone in the tournament,
17:02I'm going to pick Chennai Super Kings. And the main reasons for that is, you know,
17:07how they played against Delhi last time. I mean, Delhi is a good team, you know,
17:11they have quality players. But it was a completely one sided match, you know,
17:15the way they played with Delhi, they scored over 200. And I'm really liking out with Raj Gaikwad
17:20and Devin Conway, you know, the opening partnership they're playing together.
17:23So I really favor them ahead of Mumbai, because you know, I don't think Mumbai,
17:27you know, they have any good bowling options other than Bumrah. You know, they're not able
17:30to figure anything out. So yeah, Chennai it is for me. Sadaish, I don't think I'll have to ask you.
17:38No, but I'm, you know, I'm a Chennai fan. But I would like to say why, Shyam, the way they lost
17:4452 runs to Kolkata yesterday, rather than the previous match, that there was no, they were
17:50clueless, Shyam. Absolutely clueless. The way they succumbed to the entire chase. I think they
17:58are… I mean, that actually sums up their entire campaign. Because Mumbai doesn't lose like that.
18:05Correct. And the way Pollard got run out, and they were clueless. And I think Pollard
18:12is becoming the biggest problem for them, because he's not been scoring runs.
18:16Time and again, he used to bail them out with some quick-fire knock of 30, 35, 40. That would
18:22help them either to cross over the line or give them that extra boost for the total. But he's been
18:29completely off-colour. Of course, Roy Sharma is off-colour. And two of your main players are not
18:34scoring. Two of your main batters are not scoring. You can't expect to win consistently. And on the
18:40contrary, Chennai, thankfully, Chennai has been always banking on the good opening partnership,
18:45which two years ago they did. When they didn't do well, they failed in the previous year. Last
18:50year, they had a good partnership between Rituraj and Faf. Both of them were No. 1 and No. 2 in the
18:56run scorers list. So they were able to do well. And again, now Conway and Rituraj have struck a
19:02nice partnership. In the last four games or five games, they have been scoring runs quite well. So
19:07I would go with Chennai, because they are in form. And with this, Chennai can still be in the running,
19:14whereas Mumbai don't have any chance. I agree with both of you on Conway and Rituraj. In fact,
19:22they have been an absolute delight to watch in the last few games. Not just that, I think the
19:27change in captaincy also has done a lot of good for Chennai, because you are seeing Mohin Ali
19:36being used more extensively these days, and he's coming away with good wickets and
19:40turning in good spells. So that has also been changing. So that's a completely different
19:47Chennai we are seeing now. So which is why I would pick Chennai to beat Mumbai. And Shyam, with the
19:53wickets turning and with the wickets slowing down, Chennai has probably three or four very good
19:58spinners who can turn the match around. So that can be a very good advantage. Yeah, you have Mohin
20:03Ali, you have Dikshna and you have Ravindra Jadeja. So it's enough to choke any team for that matter.
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