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As Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy run ended connected Monday, skipper Shardul Thakur admitted that mediocre fielding fto the squad down successful the important stages of the tournament.
“We person dropped the astir fig of catches successful the season. That is an unwanted grounds for us. Fielding is 1 country wherever we request to propulsion up our socks,” Shardul said aft his squad went down to Karnataka by 4 wickets.
Chasing a people of 325, Karnataka fumbled initially earlier K.L. Rahul made the astir of 3 reprieves and went connected to people a century. “This full could person been defended. There were astir 5 catches that we dropped. We dropped Rahul thrice, truthful it doesn’t help,” Shardul said, adding: “Dropping him astatine slips was 1 important juncture wherever the crippled would person turned our way.”
Making it wide that the youngsters should larn from the elder players and use themselves better, Shardul said, “All the elder boys are applying themselves. Now it’s up to the youngsters who travel in. They should larn from idiosyncratic similar Sarfaraz (Khan) and Siddhesh (Lad) astir however to get those daddy hundreds. It’s aforesaid with bowling, wherever we request breakthroughs successful important times. We request to alteration our cognition with fielding, due to the fact that it (a sloppy show) is not acceptable astatine this level”.
