Mumbai : Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul has said that the crushing 62-run defeat at the hands of Gujarat Titans will not affect the team’s energy and intensity in the field when they take on the next opponents to secure a last-four berth in IPL 2022.
Riding on the win against LSG, the Hardik Pandya-led Gujarat Titans secured a playoffs berth on Tuesday nigh.
The LSG are in a great position to secure a last-four berth, as they are on 16 points. But they still have to win one of their remaining two games to ensure there are no surprises later on, given that two teams — Rajasthan Royals and RCB — have 14 points each, while Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad — on 10 points each — can also stake claim to last-four berths provided they win their three remaining games.
The LSG skipper conceded that this was not the time to overanalyse but to keep the energy and intensity in the field intact.
Obviously we’re not going to sit back and overanalyse a game like this. What we want is energy and intensity in the field and that was quite good while we were fielding. Batting, you get one chance and you can make a mistake. So you don’t want to overanalyse a game like this. You want to learn from it and see how we can do better if we’re put in a situation like this again, said Rahul.
Because we knew the pitch was going to grip a bit and scoring runs after the powerplay and hitting boundaries might be difficult so we took a few chances that didn’t come off. In the middle, we knew that their spinners will be difficult to score off, but having said that we have to find ways to score runs against good opposition on tricky pitches.
That’s something that we need to learn and figure out, he added.