The result of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Gujarat Titans (RCB vs GT) match could have been different if Shubman Gill shuffled the bowlers well in the death overs while they were trying to protect their total of 205 runs.
Former Team India opener Virendra Sehwag questioned the GT captain Shubman Gill’s decision during the match. Bengaluru eventually won the match by 5 wickets and 7 balls to spare.
In reply to Sai Sudharshan’s century, Virat Kohli and Devdut Padikkal delivered half-centuries each. Because of the fighting efforts by the two batters, RCB came close to the target score.
RCB needed 35 runs off the last five overs. In the 15th and 16th overs of the second innings, Bengaluru managed to score only 13 runs. GT still had the opportunity to retain the momentum. For the remaining three overs of the match, Gill had the experienced pacer, Mohammed Siraj.
Instead of handing the ball to Siraj, Shubman Gill brought Manav Suthar into the attack, and he leaked 15 runs, which instantly took RCB near the finish line. Tim David and Krunal Pandya secured the win for RCB at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Virender Sehwag is unhappy with Shubman Gill's bowling tactics
Virender Sehwag stated that if Gill asked Siraj to bowl in the high moment of the match, RCB would be under pressure as Siraj was in form and got a wicket as well in his first spell of the match. By handing the ball to a rather inexperienced bowler, Gill’s lack of courage and lack of experienced exposed.
“When 22-25 runs were needed off the last three overs, and if Mohammed Siraj had come in at that stage and got a wicket, maybe it would have been 20 needed off 2 overs, and who knows what would have happened from there. They could have at least taken the game to the last over. The match did not even go till the final over," Virender Sehwag said on Cricbuzz.
“I think the calculations were slightly wrong from the captain there. Fine, Prasidh Krishna and Rashid Khan got hit for runs, but it is the captain's job to bring them back into the attack. If you think that you cannot use a bowler because he has conceded 31 runs off two overs, then you have lost courage, right? That means you have given up. I think that was the mistake there," he added.
Gill pointed out where they made the mistake
After the match, Shubman Gill claimed that until the power play, they were in contention. But from the middle overs of the match, they started to lose their grip, and ultimately ended by losing the match.
“I mean, at the end of the power play, I think we were in a good position. It was all about taking wickets in the middle overs, which I think we were not able to do just after the powerplay got over," GT captain Shubman Gill said in the post-match presentation.
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