{"id":18769,"date":"2020-11-02T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T07:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=68125"},"modified":"2020-11-02T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T07:45:18","slug":"ipl-2020-short-run-game-against-delhi-capitals-came-to-bite-us-back-says-kl-rahul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2020-short-run-game-against-delhi-capitals-came-to-bite-us-back-says-kl-rahul\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2020: Short run game against Delhi Capitals came to bite us back, says KL Rahul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) captain, skipper KL Rahul believes that the \u201cshort run\u201d that played an important role in the opening IPL loss to Delhi Capitals (DC) immensely affected their playoffs chances inspite of their second comeback in the tournament. Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) halted on 12 points after losing their last game against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) after winning five games. <strong>\u201cIt is disappointing. We had a lot of games in our pockets and we couldn\u2019t get over the line and we only have ourselves to blame. That short run game too (against Delhi Capitals on\u00a0September 20), looks like it has come back to bite us,\u201d<\/strong> Rahul said at the post-match presentation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>During the match, the TV footage showed that square leg umpire Menon has erred in calling Chris Jordan for a \u201cshort run\u201d in the third ball of the 19th over which was bowled by Kagiso Rabada. Menon signalled that Chris Jordan has not completed the run and only one run was added to Mayank Agarwal and the team\u2019s total.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is as simple as that. We didn\u2019t bat really well. Big pressure game, we expected 180-190. We couldn\u2019t soak in the pressure. We didn\u2019t have the results going our way in the first half,\u201d<\/strong> Rahul disappointingly said after the match.<\/p>\n<p>KL Rahul, who exited the tournament with 670 runs from 14 games, said that there were times when they were patchy with both batting and bowling.<strong> \u201cThe team still felt like we were playing good cricket. We were patchy. The bowling and batting wasn\u2019t coming together in the first half, proud that we did it in the second half. Lots to be proud of as a team, a lot of could have been\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt does hurt. We have done really well to give ourselves a chance to qualify and there is lot to be proud of as a team. Would have been great if we had one more victory and qualify but nevertheless we did really well as a team. It will hurt for a little while, need to take the learning and comeback stronger next year,\u201d<\/strong> KL Rahul said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of what went wrong with the team on Sunday, <strong>\u201cIt was good wicket but we couldn\u2019t really get partnerships going. In the first six with me and Mayank getting 50, we should have capitalised and got ourselves a bigger target. The way Deepak (Hooda) batted at the end gave us a chance. In a big game like this a big total would have been nice to defend,\u201d<\/strong> he said.<\/p>\n<p>KL Rahul is really hurt with his team missing out on the qualification from the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) captain KL Rahul belives that the \u201cshort run\u201d game against Delhi Capitals (DC) massively affected thei playoffs chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":39485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[831,608],"class_list":["post-18769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-kings-xi-punjab","tag-kl-rahul"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}