Tom Moody slammed Sanju Samson over his “tactical blunder” in opposition to SRH.© BCCI
Former Australia batter Tom Moody has slammed Rajasthan Royals (RR) captain Sanju Samson over his “tactical blunder” within the IPL 2024 Qualifier 2 collision in opposition to SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Friday. RR crashed out of IPL 2024 nearest a 36-run defeat by the hands of SRH, who will now face Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) within the ultimate on Sunday. Chasing 176, RR may just most effective achieve 139/7 in 20 overs nearest Shahbaz Ahmed and Abhishek Sharma sparked a mid-innings fall down. The pair shared 5 wickets between the two of them to aid SRH achieve the general for the primary hour in six years.
Moment keeper-batter Dhruv Jurel scored a half-century for RR within the chase, Moody identified that Samson made a “tactical blunder” by way of now not sending Shimron Hetmyer forward of the teen.
“We shouldn’t be surprised because that is the trend. We shouldn’t be surprised and every single time we sit here and say that we are surprised. To me it was an absolute no-brainer. Hetmyer had to go in ahead of Dhruv Jurel, regardless of whether he played very nicely. He would have still played nice when he got his opportunity. But they needed to negate the two left-arm spinners, right at the outset. That was the hole, Sunrisers had in their attack and they needed to negate that. They should have sent Hetmyer in and said just play your game. Take it down in your zone, let’s get ahead in this game, do not allow these left-arm spinners to take control of the game. Yes, people will see we end up getting out to left-arm spin, but the game was nearly gone by then and that was a particularly good ball, a carrom ball as we mentioned. If we got ahead in the game, that would not have ever happened. It is a tactical blunder,” Moody mentioned on ESPNcricinfo.
All over a independent dialogue, former Bharat batter Virender Sehwag additionally slammed Samson for now not sending Hetmyer forward of Jurel, announcing that the West Indies southpaw would’ve negated the left-arm spin issue in opposition to Shahbaz and Abhishek.
“I was surprised by their decision to bring in Hetmyer so late. They should have bought him earlier, because there were two left-arm spinners. The quicker a left-arm batters comes, it would have been better,” Sehwag mentioned on Cricbuzz.
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