🏏IPL 2025- LSG vs Mumbai Indians, Match 16th 4th Apr 7:30PM IST 🏏 - Page 60

Hardik Pandya: It has been disappointing when you lose. If we have to be honest, on the field, we gave away 10-15 runs on that wicket. I have always enjoyed my bowling (on his fifer). I don't think I have many options. I try to read the wicket and try some smart options. I dont try to go for wickets. I try to bowl dot balls and let the batters take risks. I think as a batting unit, we fell short. We win as a team. We lose as a team. Don't want to point someone out. The ownership has to be taken by the whole batting unit. I take full ownership. It was obvious (on Tilak being retired out). We needed some hits. In cricket, some of those days come. When you try but it doesn't come off. Just play good cricket. I like to keep it simple. Take better calls. Be smart in bowling. Take chances in batting. Play simple cricket with some aggression. As it is a long tournament, couple of wins and we might get into the rhythm.

Shardul Thakur: There is always pressure when you are bowling the penultimate or the last over, Avesh did a great job as well. But at the end of the day you're paid to do that job. It was a tricky surface, sometimes you thought the slower ones would work but even a few slower ones were hit for boundaries, in the end it was the yorkers that worked. We do see what happened in the first half, but we have seen in the IPL that the pitch changes in the second half and becomes better, it is about adjusting to the conditions. He (Rathi) is a phenomenal bowler and a character as well, we need such guys in the team - who comes in and delivers for the team and he has been a bit of a surprise in the IPL. I feel the bounce is even on the red soil and the ball comes on nicely but you need more skills as a batter on black soil when there's no dew

Originally posted by: Ragazza_dolce

Very distasteful tbh. Everyone’s allowed to rejoice taking wickets but aise ? Aacha hai VK thought the guy who brought this in practise a good lesson

Originally posted by: Rosyme

Congratulations for being n 2nd place.🎊

Thank u

finally I'm in top 10 again

Originally posted by: mushat

Now it's showing 65 and total score 835. Before it was 0 and 770

Thank you Soni

Rishabh Pant: One thing is sure is that the wicket is playing really well and we need to figure out what's working for us and what is not. Very simple. Before we wanted a different kind of wicket, but whatever was offered to us we will take it and play. When a player like Mitch Marsh gives us a start like that, it gives time to the middle-order. That's the idea, we want to play according to the situation, the kind of start we got it put us in a good state. Mentally it was tough for all of us, they were not losing too many wickets, kudos to them, but we held our nerve and finished it off. (on Shardul) He is amazing for us, now I can say that he has been an amazing pick. We need to back him. (on Rathi) He is one of our leading bowlers, the way he his holding his nerve and good to see a youngster perform like that.

Digvesh Rathi | Player of the Match (translated from Hindi by Pant): I'm really enjoying it. I like to get batters out. I watched Sunil Narine bowl and from that time I took to bowling. I want to make my mindset more attacking, want to be like Narine, on how he stays calm even during pressure situations. (on the Dhir wicket) Before that over, I spoke to you (Pant), we wanted a mid-wicket. But we did not have one, he looked to play through there and that move really worked for us.

Originally posted by: Prizi

Thank u

finally I'm in top 10 again

Congratulations Prizi for being in the top 10

The win takes LSG to four points and to sixth on the points table. They next go to Eden Gardens to take on KKR while MI head home to Mumbai to face RCB.

LSG have won 6 out of 7 matches against the Mumbai Indians, including three wins at Ekana. MI’s only win came in the 2023 Eliminator at Chepauk.