It indeed was a disappointing evening at the Wankhede. Scoring 243 and still not ending up with two points is a hard pill to swallow.💔

Batting Coach, Kieron Pollard, was at the post-match press conference, dissecting the game and the campaign so far. “We haven’t been able to string a complete game of cricket together as a team,” he said. “It has not been as consistent as we would have hoped. The results are showing. It is something you can’t shy away from…collectively we haven’t been good enough.”

“We just need to be collectively better as a unit. That is as much as you can ask. You can ask them to execute better in different areas of the game. But we need to play that complete game of cricket to win a match. It is getting difficult with the way cricket is doing, but what I can safely say, in the dressing room, the guys are wanting to fight.”

With two wins in eight games, Mumbai Indians are now in the simply-must-win-everything territory. There are no rooms for slip-ups now. Polly knows the feeling. He’s been there. He’s carried the team through this. He insists MI are very much in the scheme of things and the team is in good spirits.

“We have lost games, but we have not accepted defeat,” he said.

“When I said defeat, I didn’t want the headlines to be that Mumbai Indians have been defeated, because mathematically and from a points perspective, we are still very much in the tournament. Yes, we have accepted losses because we lost the last couple of games, but we have not accepted defeat because we are not out of the tournament. We are still looking to go back and see what we can do and how far we can go in this tournament.” 💙