Ashutosh Sharma celebrates after hitting the winning shot.
| Photo Credit: K.R. DEEPAK

Ashutosh Sharma (66 n.o., 31b, 5×4, 5×6), who helped Delhi Capitals pull off a one-wicket heist versus Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL here on Monday, said that his approach was to take the game deep and go for his shots in the slog overs.

“I just wanted to take it as much as later (deeper), so that I can hit in the slog overs, batting till the last over. I just believe in my ability while batting. I never think about what’s going on (wickets falling at the other end),” he said at the post-match press conference.

Having played here in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy last year, he said he knows the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Stadium better. “I know how the wicket plays in the first and second innings. I know the situation and what it will become. So, yes, Vizag is good for me.”

On the takeaways for Super Giants, its assistant coach Lance Klusener said: “If I have to put a finger on it, I would like to say we probably left 20 or 30 runs with the bat out there and that was probably why we ended up being under pressure with the ball. That was probably the biggest lesson for us.”

“The way that the bowling is set up because of the injuries that we’ve got, it was always going to be mix-and-match tonight. Unfortunately, we bowled well in patches. We need to be more consistent with the ball.

“At the moment, we don’t have a lot of reserves with the ball. So, we are going to have to probably mix-and-match until we start getting players back.”