Cricket is a great equalizer and that was proven afterward last night SRH lost RCB by 35 runs. With that in mind, former Sunrisers head coach Tom Moody has asked his former employers to keep their feet on the ground.
If there is one team that truly terrifies bowling opponents, it is Sunrisers Hyderabad. Their batting order, consisting of Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klaasen among others, has already scored over 250 points. But they were not that effective in the chase, which was clearly evident at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium last night.
Tom Moody says it was a good defeat for SRH
While speaking on ESPNcricinfo’s RCB vs SRH post-match show, Tom Moody had some laudatory things to say about the Sunrisers. The 2016 IPL-winning coach of the South Indian club claimed it was a good game for them to lose as the defeat would hardly dent them in the points table.
Tom Moody said that the defeat against RCB was a good reality check for them and a reminder that it won’t always be all roses and daffodils. Especially after the kind of run that saw SRH score 200-plus points in a row, defeat was almost inevitable. No IPL team has ever won the competition without losing a game and that will be the case for SRH too.
Tom Moody then explained from a different perspective why SRH’s loss to RCB was a good thing. The law of averages has prevailed in a game where the opponent’s defeat does not have a major impact on the points table. Bengaluru are still at the bottom of the points table after the win and Hyderabad are still third after the loss.
“Oh, it’s always nice. I suppose when you lose a game, you lose a game against a team that has no impact on the points table. And RCB will have no impact on that spike.” 4 apart from doing what they did today and spoiling a few parties. But sometimes it’s a timely reminder that you’re human and can make mistakes when things don’t go in your favor. – said Moody on ESPNcricinfo’s Timeout show.
Moody says SRH should change its batting approach
One of the reasons why SRH lost the game was the batters’ lack of patience. We’ve seen them hit every single ball in their previous games, but that strategy can’t always work, can it? To this, Tom Moody pointed out that you cannot always rely on the “stand and deliver” approach and sometimes you have to do “heavy work.”
“Let’s be honest, the Sunrisers’ last four games have been a remarkable run of cricket that has just blown us all away and we all appreciated it. And it’s just a timely reminder that we have to keep our feet on the ground, and there is that.” It’s time you have to do hard work when you bat and it can’t be easy to stay standing and “To deliver.” – Tom Moody concluded.