You must have watched yesterday’s match between Delhi Capitals and Gujarat Titans, but you might not have noticed how Delhi’s coaches and management outwitted Gujarat Titans’ plan.
If you had watched the entire match, you would have understood that Sai Kishore, who had bowled brilliantly for Gujarat against Punjab in the previous match, came to bowl only in the 19th over.
Now, the question arises why Shubman Gill did not send him to bowl the first over. The answer to this is also hidden in the fact that it was the smartness of Delhi Capitals coaches Ricky Ponting and Sourav Ganguly to send Axar Patel to bat at number three.
The advantage of this was that Gujarat had Rashid Khan, a leg spinner, and Sai Kishore, an orthodox left-arm bowler. This move was made to neutralize the threat of a left-arm bowler, but the timing of this move left the fans quite disappointed.
If you check social media, there was a discussion about why Axar Patel was sent up the order instead of Rishabh Pant, Tristan Stubbs, and so on. And in the beginning, Patel was also struggling, scoring just 8 runs in 12 balls.
DC coach Praveen Amre:
“If you remember last year, he was the one striking the ball very well. The plan was that they had Sai Kishore bowling in the PowerPlay and we wanted a batter taking him on.”
But once he started finding his form, it became easier for him to play Rashid Khan’s leg spin because he is an Indian batsman, which means he can play spin much better. Punjab made the same mistake yesterday, they kept sending right-handed batsmen, which is why Sai Kishore had bowled well yesterday, but today Sai Kishore did not even get a chance to bowl.
Kishore should have bowled because you can’t keep a bowler behind just because of this one hypocrisy that a left-arm bowler can’t bowl to a left-handed batsman.
And in the end, when Sai Kishore bowled the 19th over, he was hit for 20 runs by a right-handed batsman who also comes from South Africa and is not that adept at playing spin.
So, here somewhere the DC Delhi management made a small but big mistake. And it is obvious that the match was very close, Miller and Delhi’s bowling caused trouble in the last overs.
In this way, Delhi’s management took a very good and positive decision at the right time and due to this, Gujarat fell a bit behind in the game. And it is also not known why Gujarat are not giving a chance to Spencer Johnson.
If you have a bowler like Spencer Johnson sitting in the dugout, you can’t have any worse news than that. You can’t win all the matches just on the strength of Rashid Khan and Noor Ahmed. You must have a good left-arm fast bowler. Every team has a good left-arm fast bowler, except Gujarat.
