Lucknow Super Giants assistant coach Lance Klusener feels level of bowling has been mundane in the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League 2024. Klusener joined the long list of pundits who feel the impact substitute is not good for the league and he prefers 11 vs 11 rather than adding one more player to the mix.
Before LSG’s match against Rajasthan Royals, the scores of 200 or more have been posted on 12 consecutive times. Bowlers have been taken to the cleaners and massive totals have become the norm in the ongoing edition.
“I think just looking at bowling performances throughout the competition, for me it has been quite disappointing,” Klusener said. “There hasn’t been a lot of good bowling. It’s been a lot of ordinary bowling and batters are just so good these days that they’re taking advantage.
More than 80 runs are been easily scored in the last five overs and the former South African all-rounder reckons the bowlers have not been up to the mark in the fag end of the innings.
“Maybe the batters have evolved a lot quicker than the bowlers but I haven’t seen a lot of good death bowling in the competition so far. And that’s when teams have been able to take advantage. Sure the surfaces have been flat, and there’s not been swing either. I think the batters have evolved a little bit quicker than the bowlers.
Klusener put some of the death-over inefficiency down to bowlers trying too many variations. “For me personally, I think it’s easy to over-complicate. If you run in and execute even four out of six yorkers… we don’t see that skill anymore. We’re going to slower balls and a whole lot of other variations so I feel that pure death bowling, yorkers, whether wide or straight, that’s a skill that we don’t see very often these days,” he said.
Meanwhile, LSG lost against RR by seven wickets. RR was brilliant in the death overs, conceding only 36 runs in the last five overs.
Lucknow Super Giants will next take on Mumbai Indians at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow on Tuesday.
