IPL 2020: It was do-or-die game for me: Vijay Shankar
Updated On: 23 October, 2020 02:02 PM IST | Dubai | PTI
The comfortable eight-wicket win lifted the team to the fifth spot in the eight-team competition with eight points from 10 games
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Sunrisers Hyderbad batsman Vijay Shankar celebrates his half century during the Indian Premier League 2020 cricket match against Rajasthan Royals, at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, in Duba. Pic/ PTI
All-rounder Vijay Shankar says he treated the match against Rajasthan Royals as a 'do-or-die game' as his good show with both bat and ball may have saved his place in Sunrisers Hyderabad's playing XI. Manish Pandey (83) and Shankar (52) stitched an unbroken 140-run partnership to help SRH chase down RR's 154 for six on Thursday. The comfortable eight-wicket win lifted the team to the fifth spot in the eight-team competition with eight points from 10 games. "If you ask personally it was a do-or-die game for me. That's how I saw this game. I didn't have the best of time with the bat, so I had to perform in this game and fortunately or unfortunately, we lost early wickets which made the team to send me up the order," Shankar said at the post match press conference.
The Tamil Nadu cricketer, who also picked up a wicket on Thursday, said the team should have previous couple of close games. "We just slipped in the last minutes. A win like this will give confidence to each and every member of the team. We can win the remaining games and keep ourselves alive in the tournament," he said. After SRH lost two early wickets during their chase, Shankar said their plan was simple -- forge a partnership and take the game as deep as possible.
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