Australia’s T20 World Cup-winning captain Aaron Finch said that Bangalore, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore were showered with sixes in their IPL match, giving the batsmanship little chance and who hit more sixes.
Travis Head’s debut T20 ton and Heinrich Klaasen’s 67 led SRH to a record-breaking 287 for three, which helped them cross their own 277/3 against Mumbai Indians in Hyderabad this March 27.
Dinesh Karthik then scored 83 off 35 balls but RCB lost the match, hitting 38 sixes around the park.
“It’s never going to be a game where you talk about batsmanship. It’s a game where you talk about who hit the most sixes and that was the difference,” Finch told Star Sports.
“They had to start at 14. And if you have a bad one it goes to 16.”
Finch said that the Hyderabad team utilized the powerplay section well.
“They were getting lucky in the first powerplay and they needed those sixes and Travis Head was the difference there.
“He started well, his intent to get the ball rolling and then a bold move to put Klaassen at number 3 and say we have to go ahead, we have a deep batting line-up and we are going to put the bowlers in. Sword here,” Finch added.
Head’s devastating 39-ball century, the fourth fastest in the tournament, was the cornerstone of SRH’s 25-run win.
Finch said IPL teams have started to change their tactics by bringing big hitters like Klaasen up the order while playing fearless cricket.
“A lot of times teams think Klaassen has so much power in the back end, let’s hold him. Sometimes like Glenn Maxwell, you don’t want to expose him right now because if he’s out, we’ve got teams not thinking that anymore.
“Don Vettori talked about that, play aggressively, play fearlessly and bear the consequences if it doesn’t go right. If it goes right, you don’t lose.”
Dinesh Karthik once again underlined the value of scoring a 35-ball 83 at a strike rate of 237. Finch said Karthik’s ability to hit the ball comes naturally, given his two decades of experience in the game.
“Once, if you’ve got 20-25 years of experience behind you and you’ve got the massive amount of balls you’ve hit throughout your entire career since you were five years old, you don’t lose the ability to bat. .
“So, it works in their favor because they train specifically for the role they play for their team. They don’t train, they’re not trying to improve their skills or they’re not trying to improve anymore, they train specifically,” Finch said.
The Victorian cricketer said that players like Karthik are an example to others to prepare specifically for their roles.
“This should be a lesson to players around the world, you have to be really specific about your preparation and how you go about it.
“You can hit as many balls as you want, if you walk out of the middle with a clouded mind or not fresh, you’re going to have a hard time no matter how well you’re playing.”
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