Lucknow, April 28: Lucknow Super Giants assistant coach Lance Klusener placed the quicker evolution of batters as reason behind the frequent tall team totals in the ongoing Indian Premier League.
The teams have been going past 200 and even 250 quite effortlessly in this IPL, and the former South African all-rounder opined that the modest performance by bowlers at death overs too has helped batters to add quick runs.“Just looking at the bowling performances throughout the competition, for me, they have been quite disappointing. There hasn’t been a lot of good bowling,” Klusener told the media after LSG’s seven-wicket loss to Rajasthan Royals here on Saturday.
“There’s been a lot of ordinary bowling and batsmen are just so good these days, they’re taking advantage. Maybe the batsmen have evolved a lot quicker than the bowlers in this competition.
“I haven’t seen a lot of good death bowling in the competition and that’s why teams have been able to take advantage. Sure, surfaces have been flat. I haven’t seen a lot of swing either,” he added.
Klusener observed that the bowlers are opting for several variations at death but they have not been using the wide yorkers enough.“It’s easy to overcomplicate. If you run in and execute even four out of six yorkers…we don’t see that anymore. We don’t see that skill,” he said.
“We’re going to slower balls and a whole lot of other variations. That pure death bowling of yorkers, whether it’s wide or straight, that’s a skill that we don’t see very often these days,” he added.
Klusener said LSG will have to start putting performances together and they cannot continue to be good in one area and bad in the other.
“We’re doing a lot of good stuff but in patches, and for us to get deeper into the competition come later on in the month, we’re going to have to make sure that we’re putting all those little things together,” he said. (PTI)
