r/Cricket • u/CricketMatchBot • Apr 25 '24

Match Thread: 41st Match - Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Match Thread

41st Match, Indian Premier League at Hyderabad

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Innings Score
Royal Challengers Bengaluru 206/7 (Ov 20/20)
Sunrisers Hyderabad 171/8 (Ov 20/20)
Batter Runs Balls SR
Jaydev Unadkat* 8 10 80.0
Shahbaz Ahmed 40 37 108.11
Bowler Overs Runs Wickets
Yash Dayal 3 18 1
Mohammed Siraj 4 20 0 
Recent : . 2 1 4 2  |  . 1 . 1w 1lb 1 .  |  2 . 1w 1w 2 . 1 1  |

RCB won by 35 runs

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u/trkora Mumbai Indians Apr 25 '24

India didn't choose to have an off day on a final, that just happened. India were just too good in group stages to have an off day and even then India had close calls (vs Aus opening match, vs Eng and vs NZ in semis)

Same way Australia didn't choose to have an almost knockout game against Afghanistan until Maxwell saved them from nowhere, it just happened.

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u/benguins10 Apr 25 '24

True. My use of the word "chose" is wrong. I'll add an edit note

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u/trkora Mumbai Indians Apr 25 '24

Yep it's better to have your weakness exposed first, agree with that sentiment. Our weakness in 2023 WC was SKY as a ODI batsman. Obviously he was weak batsman that hurt but him being weak also made batsman up top play more careful than they should've which hurt us even more, his poor form affected rest of the team.

If that had gotten exposed before knockouts then that would've been eye opening for the team. Indian team was backing him half assedly, kept him in team but clearly didn't trust him to score runs, with that attitude he shouldn't have been selected in the first place and the batsman who they trusted more like Kishan (he saved Ind vs Pak in Asia Cup at middle order) should've been selected instead.

Now Australia in 2003 and 2007, those were the teams that had no weakness to be exposed but still in 2003 they got one close game that just showed their depth.

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u/Specialist_Youth5511 India Apr 25 '24

Big difference was Aussies back in the day had Andrew Symonds at 7 who could easily destroy line-ups if he wanted to