A disappointed Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan blamed the batting unit for failing to mold their game according to the conditions as they lost by eight wickets to Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL here on Sunday.
Dhawan slammed a 66-ball 99 not out to carry the Punjab team on his shoulders as the other batters cut a sorry figure after being asked to take the first strike. "As a batting unit, we lost too many wickets back to back and couldn't put up a big total on the ground and because of that, we lost the game.
175-180 would have been a reasonable score. The wicket looked quite good but it was seaming and swinging," Dhawan said at the post-match presentation.
On his sensational innings, Dhawan, who was adjudged the player of the match, said: "I didn't expect I will reach there at the end of the day but I was playing according to the situation, still keeping positive... "Of course it was disappointing (seeing wickets keep falling) but the way we thought the wicket was going to play, it was playing differently.