Captain David Warner admits Sunrisers Hyderabad have to regroup quickly and start winning games if they want to be in contention in the Indian Premier League this season.
While all other teams have notched at least one win, Hyderabad are yet to open their account having lost both their matches and lie at the bottom of the table.
Hyderabad lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore by 45 runs in their first match and the next to Kolkata Knight Riders by eight wickets on Saturday. Warner feels his bowlers have not executed their plans well in the last two games with RCB raking up 227 and Kolkata chasing down 146 in the 19th over losing just two wickets.
“Our bowlers have sort of missed the mark in the last two games – I felt that execution was not there,” he said on Saturday. “Last year and this year we still haven’t worked out the complete game, the batters haven’t worked well with the bowlers. We have to try and gel and work together as much as we can.”
Hyderabad take on Mumbai Indians, their second straight home game tonight, and Warner wants his side to end their winless run with this encounter.
Defending champions Mumbai also enter the match on the back of a three-wicket last-ball defeat to Gujarat Lions on Saturday and will be keen to get back to winning ways.
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“We have go to really come out firing,” Warner told Cricinfo. “This game is going to be the game (where) we gel together, we bat and bowl well and field well. They are going to be hungry as well because they are in a same position as us. “We have to be switched on and make sure we keep executing our plans, we can’t keep talking about it, we have to do it on the day.”
Meanwhile, the participation of Mumbai’s pace spearhead Lasith Malinga continues to be a subject of debate with the Sri Lankan cricket board warning him that he cannot play in the IPL without their no objection certificate.
Reports in India speculated that Malinga, who was present in Mumbai during their game against Gujarat, has been ruled out of the tournament after the franchise’s medical panel found him unfit.
However, there has been no statement from Mumbai about the bowler’s knee injury that kept him out of the World Twenty20. He is expected to be out of action for the next four months.
