Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) pacer Harshal Patel bowled two waist-high full tosses against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) during the 6th game of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL 2021) at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Wednesday (April 14).
In the third ball of the final over of the Sunrisers Hyderabad’s (SRH) innings, defending 16 runs, Patel bowled over the waist height full toss to Rashid Khan, although, the SRH spinner managed to get the boundary off it, the umpire called it the no-ball.
It was Patel’s second waist-high full toss, as the RCB speedster had earlier bowled a full toss over the waist no-ball in the fourth ball of the 18th over, the ball flying at Jason Holder's rib height, but the batsman didn't get a bat on the ball since it was well down the leg side, he wasn’t warned.
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However, the umpires allowed him to continue bowling in the match on Wednesday, which left the SRH captain David Warner unhappy over the decision as Patel wasn’t taken out of attack despite bowling two no-balls.
While the Australian star looked animated at the dugout during the last over, Hyderabad head coach Trevor Bayliss backed the umpires’ decision during the SRH v RCB IPL 2020 game in Chennai.
After SRH’s 6-run loss to RCB on Wednesday, Bayliss said the umpires took the right decision by not stopping the right-arm pacer from bowling, as he was warned for the first time in the last over and the ICC rule says a bowler will be barred from bowling in the match after receiving two warnings from the umpires for bowling waist-high full tosses or beamers in the same match.
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Bayliss said during the post-match press conference, “He was a little animated because we weren't playing very good cricket and we lost. I think the umpires got it right. There was a bit of conjecture over obviously the second high no-ball, but the first one was not directed at the batter's body, so that wasn't a warning. So I think the umpires got that one right.”
On Kane Williamson's fitness, the SRH coach noted: “Kane Williamson is out having a bit of a run now. He trained on one of the days - we had two days' practice before this game and he practiced on one of those days so he's coming along.”
Bayliss also revealed that Mohammad Nabi hasn’t recovered from the blow he sustained during their last match against Kolkata Knight Riders and they had to replace him with Jason Holder against RCB.
He further added, “Nabi, when he got hit the other day in the first match, he's feeling the effects of that hit for a couple of days after that. So he was deemed unfit. He had a bit of a headache and a heavy head. That allowed us to play Jason, and from the pace-bowling point of view he gave us a point of difference with a little bit of height and bounce.”
Meanwhile, the Aussie admitted the poor batting by the middle-order cost them the IPL 14 game against the RCB in Chennai. The head coach further explained, “Obviously, when you keep a team down to under 150, you would like to think you are going to win more times than you lose. But our batting in that last third of the match was fairly poor. There was some good bowling, obviously.”
Bayliss signed off by saying, “But we should have countered the pressure by playing some good strong cricket shots and taking the ones and twos and putting the pressure back on the opposition. We tried to get the game done and over within a short space of time. In T20 cricket, you have always got a little bit more time than you really think.
If you look at the end result, we lost by six or seven runs. If we hadn't lost out better batters in that over, where we lost three wickets, it might have been a different story. It wasn't, so we have got to go away and regroup. Stay nice and positive and move on to the next match.”
SRH will next take on Mumbai Indians at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on April 17 in the IPL 2021.
(With ANI Inputs)
