{"id":170279,"date":"2026-05-21T02:42:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=170279"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:12:48","slug":"when-you-lose-four-wickets-in-the-powerplay-its-always-difficult-to-come-back-mhambrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=170279","title":{"rendered":"When you lose four wickets in the PowerPlay, it\u2019s always difficult to come back: Mhambrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71005462\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Mumbai Indians bowling coach Paras Mhambrey admitted that even on a challenging Eden Gardens pitch his team should have scored some more runs to beat Kolkata Knight Riders in the return leg of their Indian Premier League contest.<\/p>\n<p>Mhambrey said losing four wickets for 46 runs in the PowerPlay hampered his team\u2019s progress as it managed 147 for eight. Eventually, MI lost the match by four wickets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t an easy pitch. Not a normal Eden Gardens wicket. It had a spongy bounce. It was just a little bit up and down that made stroke-making a little difficult. Credit to them that they bowled well. When you lose four wickets in the PowerPlay, it\u2019s always difficult to come back. We were some 20-25 runs short on this pitch. We still could have managed 160 (with a partnership). And that would have been really competitive,\u201d said Mhambrey.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/videos\/manish-pandey-contribution-player-of-the-match-catch-kkr-coach-shane-watson-ipl-2026-campaign\/article71005415.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manish Pandey\u2019s experience, athleticism adding value to KKR\u2019s IPL campaign: Shane Watson<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about partnerships. We lost wickets regularly, and it was very difficult for us to construct a partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the catches which MI could not grab, Mhambrey said that was part and parcel of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Mhambrey said MI would focus on winning its last match against Rajasthan Royals on Sunday without bothering about its impact on RR\u2019s prospects of making it to the Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 21, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/videos\/paras-mhambrey-mi-bowling-coach-press-conference-kkr-game-powerplay-issues-ipl-2026\/article71005462.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai Indians bowling coach Paras Mhambrey admitted that even on a challenging Eden Gardens pitch his team should have scored some more runs to beat Kolkata Knight Riders in the return leg of their Indian Premier League contest. Mhambrey said losing four wickets for 46 runs in the PowerPlay hampered his team\u2019s progress as it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_TH16MHAMBREY_2_1_05D2EMN3.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-Iir","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}