Coach Daniel Vettori looked unhappy with the performance of SRH players, said- could not show strength in bowling

Bengaluru: Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach Daniel Vettori criticized his team’s bowling against Royal Challengers Bangalore and said that the bowlers gave a lot of chances to Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal to score runs in the first match of IPL. Sunrisers scored 201 runs for nine wickets in the first match of the season but RCB achieved the target in 15.4 overs only.

Vettori said in the post-match press conference, “You needed a good start with the bowling, which we did by taking the wicket of Phil Salt, but we could not give our best performance. We did not bowl disciplined. Gave a lot of chances to score runs to Virat and Padikkal who performed brilliantly.

He said that Sunrisers saw how RCB fast bowler Jacob Duffy bowled but their bowlers could not execute the strategy. He said, “We learned a lot from RCB’s bowling but could not implement it. Every match in IPL is very important, especially the initial matches. In such a situation, negligence cannot be done.