Gujarat Titans head coach Matthew Hayden has claimed that Vaibhav Suryavanshi Has been impressive with the bat; However, he backed his own batsmen over the RR youngster, praising his remarkable consistency in IPL 2026.
Gujarat Titans’ fortunes changed after a poor start to the season. Their first wins came against Delhi Capitals by one run and against Titans Not there. Looked back since then. the last defeat was at home lose the match For Mumbai Indians, and since then, the Shubman Gill-led team has Was Four-match winning streak.
Gujarat Titans have now reached the top two with last victory Registered Against Rajasthan Royals. They avenged their defeat in the second match of this season, where Royals defeated them by a margin of 6 runs.
Matthew Hayden notes Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s flaws
Vaibhav Suryavanshi threatens Gujarat Titans during Mammoth chase of 230 runs At Sawai Mansingh Stadium. it This is one of the grounds where Vaibhav Suryavanshi has scored two centuries in two editions of the IPL.
Australian legend and Gujarat Titans batting coach Matthew Hayden revealed that he is Mighty impressed by the splendor Suryavanshi’s performance, but also highlighted flaws in of young man gameplay.
“Well, tonight Vaibhav was a good example of an exciting young talent in Suryavanshi. he batted, get 30 runs at a strike rate of 300. but when you are doing Chasing the target of 220 runs, you need to bat long and deep,” The Australian legend said.
However, Gujarat Titans’ The batting coach supported his own batsmen. GT Top 3 made significant contributions with the bat this season, scoring almost 70% GT net works In this weather. Sai Sudarshan and Shubman Gill are already on the Orange Cap leaderboard with 440 and 462 runs respectively.
“So the advantage we have is that we get players, like the top three that you mentioned, who are striking 150,” Hayden told reporters in the post-match press conference,” GT head coach Matthew Hayden claimed.
“As a batsman let me tell you it is really tough, and They doing it for a long time; They Consistently entering the late game, not just batting inside the power play. They Moving forward with his fitness and his ability to really be able to play Test match-type cricket and especially ODI cricket,” He added.
Matthew Hayden impressed by change in approach of GT batsmen
talking about GT batsmen’ He highlights the latest approach in the match How he has scored consecutive runs batting on The strike rates for Gill, Buttler and Sudarshan are 160.41, 151.96 and 157.70 respectively. However, in this match, the way these batsmen accelerated their innings and changed their approach against the X-factor led team, Rajasthan Royals.
“So, I like this fact Were Going about building in shifts. tonight, where Were Setting a goal, which is a different challenge for us, We There were many units of that type in the 160 range.
“I would back our batting any day of the week, so it was good to face the challenge tonight against an X-factor team like Rajasthan Royals, and it was really important for us to come out on top.” Hayden added.
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