We were unable to contain Dragons batsmen, says Varun

His side will have a second go at booking a spot in the Tamil Nadu Premier League final when it plays the Qualifier 2 on Friday. Commenting on why the bowlers failed to stem the flow of runs, he said, “The pitch here is flat, we did not expect it to be so flat. But, we should have implemented our plans better. Once we knew that the pitch was playing well, we should have bowled more dot balls rather than going hard at the batsman. Straight boundaries here are small, we could have kept them to singles when they were striking hard but we were unable to that.”

Panthers looked like it was not up for the challenge as it was reduced to 128 in 19.3 overs. Talking about the batting failure, he added, “We had to get 10 runs per over from ball one. So, we had to try hitting every over but it did not work out our way.” 

On the lessons learnt from the defeat, he stated, “We definitely need to bowl better, if plan A fails we need to switch to plan B which we did not do (on Thursday). We should have adjusted to the pitch better than what we managed.”