\u201cIt is very easy to make changes for any team. If that is the case, teams that are going for 240 should be changing bowlers every second game. And then 25 players will not be enough; will not be sufficient because every team has for that particular slot maybe just one or two players,\u201d Kapoor said on the eve of his side\u2019s game against Punjab Kings in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n
GT\u2019s top three have done the bulk of the job once again this season, contributing nearly 68 per cent of its runs. Neither Shahrukh Khan nor Rahul Tewatia has hauled 100 runs this season, and both score at a strike rate of less than 130.<\/p>\n
This has made the batting unit susceptible to sudden collapses, as was evident against Mumbai Indians, when GT was bundled out for just 100 runs while chasing 200. Kapoor put that down to a lack of extended spells in the middle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a few opportunities for Shahrukh Khan this year. But if you take the last two years, he has not had that many opportunities playing those kinds of balls. It was just a few in the end. And it is really difficult for a player, sitting and not getting any batting. Yes, this year he should have grabbed those two opportunities even if it was a lost cause in one of the matches,\u201d Kapoor said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Tewatia, in the last match, when the wickets had fallen, showed that he can play like a proper batsman. It\u2019s just that in our team in the first two years, when we won, his batting was coming down the order. There were five overs, 50 to get. So, obviously, he had to go for the runs. The last game, he just needed to take some time to score and win the match, which he did,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n