Mumbai Indians (MI) pacer Jasprit Bumrah admitted that the five-time IPL champions were "not good enough", after slumping to their sixth successive defeat in a nightmarish IPL 2022 campaign. Their latest loss came against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) on April 16.
LSG captain KL Rahul’s 3rd IPL century in his 100th match in the league propelled the team to 199/4 in 20 overs. MI was never in the chase, after losing early wickets and managed 181/9, losing by 18 runs, registering their sixth defeat in six matches in IPL 2022.
"We have been in a fight. A lot of games will little luck here or there. But it is the way it is. We are not shying away that we were not good enough and the table is not lying. In the rest of our games, we will try to give our best shot and come out on the better side," Bumrah said at the post-match press conference.
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"Life has not ended, sun is going to rise again tomorrow. This is the game of cricket, right? Somebody has to win or lose. We haven't lost everything in life right? We just lost a cricket game. That's the spirit which is there in our team. Nobody is as disappointed as we are. Nobody from the outside can see the hard work we have put in,' said Bumrah.
Nothing went right for MI as apart from their batters failing to score runs, and bowlers not looking like posing any problems, poor fielding compounded the problem for the five-time champions.
“Obviously, it's disappointing. Nobody wants to lose and we are no different. But it is the way it is. We are accepting it and taking it on the chin that 'okay, we have not been good enough and fallen short on the trot'. We are not looking at okay, we are now going on a crazy run. We are looking at what we can control. We have been in a fight and made a game out of previous games.
It's just that we have fallen short whenever there has been pressure as soon as people start to throw punches at us. We accept that and go back to the drawing board to keep working hard and come back with the same intensity. We will try to do that and whenever next game comes up, that's how we will look forward to the season," added the India pace spearhead,” he signed off.
(PTI inputs)
