Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) batsman Kane Williamson said he is “getting tired of coming second in the Super Overs” after his team lost the first super over of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL 2021) to Delhi Capitals (DC) on Sunday (April 25) at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Williamson has been a part of a few Super Overs, including the most famous the 2019 World Cup final between England and New Zealand – which England won on the boundary-count back rule against Williamson’s side at Lord’s in June 2019.
On Sunday, SRH managed to equal their opponents DC’s score of 159 in the regulation match, thanks to the New Zealand captain’s unbeaten 66 off 51 balls, but in the super over, Williamson and David Warner could only make only seven runs that didn’t prove to enough for victory as Delhi won the super over.
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Williamson said at the post-match press conference: “I am getting tired of coming second in the Super Overs. Throughout the game, whenever there is a Super Over, as a batting side chasing a score that was very competitive, there are a lot of positives to take out of it.”
He further added, “It is really uncanny in the game of cricket that things can end in a tie but I suppose it is very, very exciting. A lot of positives, we move on really quickly to Delhi. It is a game of very small margins and I think, if we are being honest, we just want to do different aspects of our game a bit better.
This game, if you are able to do it, then the result can change quite quickly. I suppose when it ends in a tie, you can look at the one run throughout the whole innings. I think, on the whole, a lot of positives.”
On his game-changing performance despite not getting any support at the other end against DC, Kane said: “It was nice to be there at the end, it would have been a lot nicer if I was there at the end and we were at the right side of the result.”
He signed off by saying, “You know there were a lot of valuable partnerships in the innings and we lacked a bit of momentum because that was the nature of the surface. We got very close, with some positives to build on. We do not know how the surfaces will be in Delhi.”
Noteworthy, the seventh-ranked SRH will next take on Chennai Super Kings in Delhi on April 28.
(With PTI Inputs)
