Sunrisers Hyderabad’s (SRH) TATA IPL 2022 season is confirmed to be a topsy turvy campaign. The season was a combined bag for the Kane Williamson-led side from a 5-match winning streak to a 5-match losing streak.
SRH head coach Tom Moody recently expressed that injuries to Washington Sundar and T Natarajan at an important juncture hurt the team’s opportunity. He estimated that the side lost momentum because of that injury worry.
The veteran coach made these observations while conversing on the Hyderabad team’s official YouTube channel. He said:
“The injuries that we had in the middle of the tournament with Washington Sundar and Natarajan really threw us a little bit. We found it difficult to recapture that winning momentum.”
It is worth specifying that both Washington Sundar and T Natarajan had to miss various matches in this year’s cash-rich league due to their many injuries.
Sundar was on the avocation due to a split net in his bowling hand, while Natarajan injured himself during the team’s fixture against CSK(Chennai Super Kings).
“Thought it was going to be a quite impossible task” – Tom Moody on GT chasing down 195 against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Moody said that Hyderabad lost steam during the main phase of the match. Talking about the team’s performance, he mentioned how they failed Gujarat Titans (GT) despite registering a massive total of 195. He added:
“We’ve got plenty to work on. There’s no question of that. And we are aware of that. We would have liked to have found ourselves further up the table. But a couple of incidents in the middle phase of this tournament just threw us a little bit.”
“That game against GT, where we lost in the last couple of overs when they chased down what we thought at the time, was going to be a near-impossible task. But it shows you the nature of T20 cricket.”
It is worth specifying that SRH seemed the favorite to victory the encounter after Umran Malik’s fantastic 5-wicket haul. Although, Rahul Tewatia (40*) and Rashid Khan (31*) turned the tables around with their rapid-fire cameos to help their team victory the last-over thriller.
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The Hyderabad-based side failed to cut the actual playoffs. They won just six of their 14 matches this season and finished 8th in the points table.
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