RR eye improved batting effort against SRH to avoid hat-trick of defea

Bruised and battered in their last game Rajasthan Royals would look for a muchimproved effort from the batting unit against Sunrisers Hyderabad in order to avoid a hattrick of defeats in the IPL here on SundayRR dished out a shoddy batting display as they were bowled out for 118 by Gujarat Titans on FridayDespite backtoback defeats against Mumbai Indians and GT RR have managed to hold on to their spot in the top four of the standings with five wins and as many lossesAlso ReadIPL 2023 Rashid Noor star in Gujarat Titans dominating 9wicket win over Rajasthan RoyalsUpdated on06 May2023 0732 AM IST JaipurIn their last outing RR which boasts of one of the potent opening duo of the inform Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler put up a disastrous batting displayBut the duo failed to live up to the expectationsRR have always looked like a dominating side when Jaiswal and Buttler click but the team management would be concerned with the inconsistent run of its middleorders as the likes of Devdutt Padikkal Riyan Parag and Shimron Hetmyer are yet to fire in unisonRR coach Kumar Sangakkara didnt mince his words in criticising the effort of his batters especially against the spinnersYou cant sit and wait in T20 cricket and let the bowlers bowl to uswe played a very poor game a livid Sangakkar saidEven a defence in T20 cricket has to have the intent of wanting to score You work down the sequence of 6 4 3 2 1 or if youre under pressure you go 4 3 2 1 But you are always looking for opportunities to score and at the minimum getting off strikeAnd once that intent is shown it doesnt matter how good a bowler you are you are always thinking that you cant give the batter anything loose because youre going to get put away So thats one area that weve got to really look at he addedOn the bowling front too RR will have to pull up the socks with Trent Boult and Adam Zampa going for runsThe onus would be on Boult and Sandeep Sharma to provide a good start and the the spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal taking chargeSRH on the other hand have registered just three wins from nine games to occupy the penultimate spot in the 10team competitionHaving suffered a close fiverun defeat against Kolkata Knight Riders in their last game SRH would look to return to winning ways to keep their playoff hopes aliveSRH have been hit hard by the poor show of the batters The opening pair of Abhishek Sharma and Mayank Agarwal has failed to provide quick starts putting immense pressure on the likes of Rahul Tripathi skipper Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klaasen to do the jobHarry Brook also seemed to have lost his touch after his unbeaten 100 as he scored just 63 runs in the next eight gamesSRHs bowling unit led by Bhuvneshwar Kumar too needs to deliver for the sideTeams fromRajasthan Royals Jos Buttler Yashasvi Jaiswal Sanju Samson c amp wk Dhruv Jorel Riyan Parag Shimron Hetmyer R Ashwin Jason Holder Trent Boult Sandeep Sharma Yuzvendra Chahal Navdeep Saini M Ashwin K M Asif K C Cariappa Donovan Ferreira Devdutt Padikkal Obed McCoy Joe Root Kuldeep Sen Akash Vashist Kuldip Yadav Adam Zampa Abdul BasithSunrisers Hyderabad Aiden Markram c Abdul Samad Rahul Tripathi Glenn Phillips Abhishek Sharma Marco Jansen Fazalhaq Farooqi Kartik Tyagi Bhuvneshwar Kumar T Natarajan Umran Malik Harry Brook Mayank Agarwal Heinrich Klaasen Adil Rashid Mayank Markande Vivrant Sharma Samarth Vyas Sanvir Singh Upendra Yadav Mayank Dagar Nitish Kumar Reddy Akeal Hosein and Anmolpreet SinghThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever