Steve Smith, Rajasthan Royals captain, has said that the team would be required to be at their level best to defeat SunRisers Hyderabad led by David Warner in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Rajasthan Royals are at 7th position in points table ahead of only KXIP while SRH are at number 3 position. Rajasthan Royals suffered defeat against Delhi Capitals by 46 runs as they could only score 138 in reply to Delhi Capitals’ 184/8.
Steve Smith: Rajasthan Have To Be At Best To Beat Strong SRH
Rajasthan Royals (RR) and SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) will next play against each other on Sunday, October 11 at the Dubai International Stadium.
“The games are coming in thick and fast so we need to adjust quickly and put on our best show against a strong Sunrisers team who have got a good overall team, we will have to be at our very best to beat them,” said Smith in an official release issued by RR.
Rajasthan is currently languishing at the seventh place in the IPL 2020 standings with just four points from six games. The side has faced four successive defeats to DC, MI, RCB, KKR and will next take on SRH on Sunday.
Steve Smith : Batting Needs To Click For Rajasthan
Rajasthan Royals’ batsmen were not able to stay at the crease apart from Rahul Tewatia (38) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (34) who were only able to register respectable scores. Steve Smith managed 24, and Jos Buttler scored 13, and apart from them, nobody could score double digit runs. For Delhi Capitals, pacer Kagiso Rabada once again hogged the limelight as he scalped three wickets.
“It’s been a difficult four games for us. We’ve not been able to get in the performances under pressure and that has hurt us. We bowled and fielded well for large parts of the game against Delhi and that’s a positive for us,” said Smith.
“Our batting needs to click for us, we have not been able to get a good start in our four games and the top four just haven’t been able to score a lot of runs in games, which has been detrimental for us and we’ll have to address that and try to bounce back from this situation,” he added.
Rajasthan Royals fielded well against Delhi Capitals, and the side was able to string together a couple of run-outs as well. Yashasvi Jaiswal ran-out skipper Shreyas Iyer while Rishabh Pant was also sent back to the pavilion by substitute Manan Vohra and Rahul Tewatia.