"Losing Lot Of Wickets In Clumps": Brian Lara Points Out Where Bottom-placed SRH Are Going Wrong

Sunrisers Hyderabad's inability to hold their wickets against quality bowling came to the fore in the match against Lucknow Super Giants, and their chief coach Brian Lara pointed out that "losing a lot of wickets in clumps" was not helping matters. SRH lost their second consecutive game in IPL 2023, suffering another big defeat on Friday, with the team managing to put just 121 runs on the board and LSG racing to the target in just 16 overs.

"I think we are losing a lot of wickets in clumps. In the first game we lost two wickets in the first over. Tonight (Friday), we lost three wickets in seven balls which changed the complexion of the game. So, we definitely have to look at our batting and come up with a solution for it," said the West Indian great during the post-match press conference.

SRH lost the wickets of Anmolpreet Singh, captain Aiden Markram and Harry Brook in the space of just seven balls in the eighth and ninth overs to slide to 55 for four, and could never recover from the shock on a spin-friendly wicket.

LSG left-arm spinner Krunal Pandya caused mayhem at the top, removing opener Anmolpreet, Mayank Agarwal and Markram to emerge as the most successful bowler for the winners with figures of 3 for 18.

Lara also said the wicket wasn't conducive for strokeplay, which contributed to his batters not being able to set a par score.

"I think, obviously, today we didn't play on a pitch that was conducive to proper strokeplay. Not using that as an excuse, but I think that we definitely have to improve in our batting." The coach, however, defended the decision to bat first as he thought the pitch would deteriorate in the second innings, which would make the task for his slow bowlers to attack easier.

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