Follow UsRajasthan Royals (RR) defeated Gujarat Titans (GT) on April 28 in Jaipur by eight wickets after RR openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Suryavanshi had stitched a 166-run partnership in just 11.5 overs, which killed the 210-run chase.
14-year-old Suryavanshi, especially, dominated almost every bowler who bowled to him and didn’t hold back his shots against the star-studded GT bowling lineup. He didn’t let any of the new bowlers settle and took the attack to every single one of them. In the process, he became the fastest Indian to score a hundred in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the youngest in the tournament’s history.
Speaking after the game, Sai Sudharsan regretted GT dropping Jaiswal early in the innings and felt that the bowlers should have tried more plans against the young openers who took the game away from his side.
“We could have and we should have taken that catch, that would have made a big difference,” Sudharsan said.
“When we finished [batting], we felt it was par or ten runs over par, is what our feeling was. But the way they started and batted showed us that we were wrong.
“No credit taken [away] from Vaibhav, the way he batted was tremendous and fantastic to watch, [even though we were] fielding," he added.
"But at the same time, we could have reacted well. The way they started the powerplay was brilliant, but we could have reacted well and had better plans.”
Sudharsan added that GT bowlers also failed to learn from the lengths RR bowlers bowled in the first innings, and use more variations.
"Maybe the lengths, and we could have been aware of the wicket, how it reacted to the ball, which they bowled in the first innings,” the left-handed opener said.
“Maybe we could have taken cues from that and executed that. Maybe we could have gone wider, we could have not bowled into his arc, maybe we could have done that and things would have been different.”