After losing the Kings XI Punjab by Rising Pune on Sunday, the team coach Virender Sehwag’s fury sparked off captain Maxwell. After the match, Veru blamed Shaun Marsh and Eoin Morgan as well as captain Maxwell as well for this defeat. Kings XI Punjab team lost by 9 wickets in their last league match at Pune. The performance of the Kings team in this match was worse than average. In this important match, the entire team of Punjab has been all out for 73 runs.
The position of the playoff before the match for both of these teams was that any team that wins this match becomes the fourth team to qualify in the playoffs. The Pune team did not let this opportunity by their hands and by winning this match, they qualified themselves in the playoff and kept themselves in second place. Responding to the defeat of the Kings, the team’s coach Virender Sehwag has blasted on his experienced foreign players.
Maxwell did not play responsibility
Sehwag said to the captain Glenn Maxwell, “Maxwell plays in every format (T20, ODI, Test) cricket for Australia. They should come face to face like this. They did not take full responsibility in this match. In this match we have not played the last 4 overs and have already been all out. On this slow pitch it could have scored some runs for fighting totals in 4 overs. ‘ Viru and his team expected Maxwell to play captaincy innings for his team in the crisis. But they were out without having to open the account.
Shawn Marsh and Ion Morgan have also been targeted by sehwag,
Sehwag said, “Goptil was out at the start of the match so it was not okay to blame him because he was given the responsibility of aggressive start, but besides Shaun Marsh, Ian Morgan and captain Glenn Maxwell, Had to take it in hand, but none of these batsmen agreed to stay on the crease for 12 to 14 overs.
Can not targeted the pitch responsible for the defeat,
Sehwag further said that Shaun Marsh and Eoin Morgan were senior players of this team and had to take the responsibility to stay on the wicket for 12-14 overs. Team senior players blamed the slump of the wicket. On this, Sehwag said that internationally such complaints can not be avoided. You do not get easy pitch for batting every time. You should come to deal with such situations. Viru said if we had a score of 120 on this slow pitch then we could have challenged Pune in this match.
