The 184-run score was defendable but the bowlers let the side down today and the team will have to pull up the socks in this department in the matches to come, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Anil Kumble said today.
The 184-run score was defendable but the bowlers let the side down today and the team will have to pull up the socks in this department in the matches to come, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Anil Kumble said today.
Riding on T Suman's 57-ball 78 and Andrew Symonds' 24-ball 53, Deccan Chargers comfortably defeated RCB by seven wickets in an Indian Premier League match here.
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And Kumble said it is his bowlers who were to be blamed for the defeat. "184 was a good score, it was defendable but unfortunately the bowling stand up today.
The bowling department need to look inside and find answers," the RCB captain said. "It was a good chase by Deccan but 184 was defendable," Kumble insisted.
Kumble's counterpart Adam Gilchrist said the win proved that the Hyderabad outfit has improved after the five consecutive loses.
"Its great to win. It kept us alive. We have shown 90 per cent improved performance but 10 per cent still to go," Gilchrist said. "Suman was brilliant and as a group we have improved but there are still things to look into," he said.
"The morale of the team is high even after those defeats. The boys stuck together," he added.
Man-of-the-match Suman said his game plan was to guide the Deccan run chase. "My plan was to bat till the end and if the ball was there to be hit to go for my shots. I knew that if bat till the end with Gilchrist and Andrew Symonds in the line we will achieve the target," he said.
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