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- Updated: May 13, 2016
“What we are not doing is winning cricket.”
“We don’t have the nucleus of players who have played together.”
“We’re using up all those free lives.”
“I was pretty angry with the way things went today so my morale needs a bit of boost.”
These statements from Stephen Fleming, coach of Rising Pune Supergiants, underline his thoughts on the side’s downward spiral in their first IPL. The pain of defeat is one thing, but having to face the same questions at different venues over the past month might have been just as difficult for the former New Zealand captain
At one point Fleming was angry, but then he realised neither he nor MS Dhoni, the Supergiants captain, could do anything more than ask their players to simply compete.
Four of the first-choice overseas players returned home injured within the first three weeks of the tournament. Last week Tamil Nadu legspinner M Ashwin was declared unfit due to a side strain. Add to that the absence of a home base, after the Bombay High Court moved matches scheduled for May out of Maharashtra. Home games are not just about the comfort factor, but familiarity with conditions and crowd support are often advantages for teams in the race for the playoffs.
On the eve of the match against Kolkata Knight Riders, …
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