We need to come back stronger in our next game: Mike Hesson

In a long-haul tournament like the IPL, there are moments when seeing a team feels like poetry in motion and the very next day, they may post a display that will be staying witness to some extraterrestrial sorcery, crippling their momentum and leaving them famished for maybe just one good moment in an entire match.

Irrespective of the crushing defeat to SRH, the Director of cricket operations bit the bullet and just wanted the team and the fans to move forward because there's still a long way to go.

Talking about the forgettable night, Hesson said, “We struggled to get into the game. We struggled to gain any form of momentum at all. SRH bowled nicely in those conditions. We struggled to combat it.”

He then broke down the game in detail, “When you lose three early wickets, you always try and fight your way back. We have already done this a few times. Today we couldn’t. Everything we did, didn’t work out. We got on a certain bit of rollercoaster. I think the lower order scraped pretty hard to get us to a total but clearly the total was never enough.”

Hesson then shifted his focus at the RCB top-order as he said, “The top-order hasn’t really fired yet. We are not overthinking too much about it. We know that there are high quality players in that top-order. Some are firing on occasions and some not. That happens in T20 cricket. We won’t overthink that.”

Hesson also talked about RCB’s brilliant middle-order. “Our middle-order has been exceptional. They were asked to do another job. They were shouldered with the rebuilding job today which was a bit too far,” he accepted.

“Most teams on a game like this, they’re outplayed at some stage. You also win games as well. You outplay the oppositions too. Today’s we weren’t enough to get the better of Sunrisers. Congratulations to them. We need to come back stronger in our next game,” he added.

Mike concluded by saying, “The last thing you do in the middle of the tournament is you have one bad day in office and start to over-analyse. When we have a good game, we don’t think much about it and believe in ourselves and its’s important that we do the same today.”