IPL 2021: SRH coach Trevor Bayliss attributes loss to poor decision-making

Sunrisers Hyderabad coach Trevor Bayliss

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) coach Trevor Bayliss blamed poor decision-making by their batsmen for the six-run defeat to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in an IPL-14 encounter at Chennai on Wednesday night.

Chasing 150 for victory on a slow Chepauk wicket, SRH got off to a good start, but a middle-order collapse saw the David Warner-led side manage just 143-9 for their second defeat in as many games.

Warner top-scored with 37-ball 54 (4x7, 6x1) but once he departed, SRH lost their next seven wickets for 46 runs, with Shahbaz Ahmed (2-0-7-3) claiming three wickets in the 17th over to hand RCB back-to-back wins.

"We probably went for a bit too many runs in the last couple of our bowling overs. Then, in the over, where we lost three wickets, it was some poor cricket, poor decision-making. We played some pretty good cricket for 35 overs but against such good teams, you need to put together 40 good overs," Bayliss said at the post-match virtual press conference on Wednesday night.

Bayliss felt his batsmen failed to put pressure on the RCB bowlers in the final overs. "When you keep a team down to under 150, you'd like to think you're going to win more times than you lose. But our batting in that last third of the match was fairly poor. There was some good bowling but we should have countered the pressure by playing some good strong cricket shots and taking the ones and twos and putting the pressure back on the opposition. We tried to get the game done and over within a short space of time. In T20 cricket, you've always got a little bit of more time than you really think," added the Australian.