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After Mumbai went down to Punjab successful a thriller successful the Vijay Hazare Trophy connected Thursday, a visibly upset Shardul Thakur admitted that the players should person applied themselves better.
Chasing a people of 217, Mumbai was cruising astatine 1 constituent successful clip earlier it choked and ended up losing by 1 run. Mumbai’s regular skipper Shardul, who has been ruled retired of the tourney owed to a calf injury, said that successful cricket, things shouldn’t beryllium taken lightly.
“Someone told maine that cricket is the lone crippled that you tin subordinate to your life. It shows that not each days are the same, and also, you shouldn’t instrumentality your crippled lightly. Once you are successful there, you request to marque definite that you bash immoderate is required for the squad to transverse the line, and that’s wherever we missed our chances today,” Shardul told The Hindu.
“Better exertion and amended plans would person easy won america the game. If you see, we batted for conscionable 25 overs (sic) and wasted the remaining 25 overs. I don’t spot immoderate crushed for getting each retired for specified a debased total,” Shardul said, pointing retired the information that Mumbai’s innings folded up successful conscionable 26.2 overs.
Lad to lead
In the quarterfinals, Mumbai volition instrumentality connected Karnataka, nether the enactment of Siddhesh Lad.
