IPL 2024: Daniel Vettori Emphasizes the Need for SRH to Improve Chasing After Setting Targets

SRH team head coach Daniel Vettori wants the franchise to focus on successfully chasing the target after the success of setting the total. Vettori made the comments after SRH’s 35-run defeat against RCB at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Thursday, April 26. SRH’s 4-match winning streak was snapped by bottom-ranked RCB, who breathed some life into their tournament hopes. SRH have won 4 of the 8 matches they have played while batting first.

Vettori, while speaking to the media at the post-match press conference, reflected on the learnings from RCB’s loss and shifted focus to SRH’s upcoming match against CSK at Chepauk. Vettori realizes that the team needs to work on their approach when chasing the target and will look to implement that against CSK. “I think you know, we managed to set the total, and now we have to look at our way of chasing, and we came up against a really good team in Chennai. And so, I think we can take ours from this game. Let’s push ourselves away and realize that Chepok’s wicket will be different, and we have to go about it differently, so we only have two days to put it in place,” Vettori said.

‘SRH are still going to be aggressive’
However, the SRH head coach did not want the team to change their attacking game and still wanted the team to play with that intention.

“But I still think on this ground, on these surfaces, we have to be aggressive and finish the game,” Vettori added.

SRH has a great batting lineup and their batsmen have been plundering one record after another in every game they play. The lethal opening combination of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma has been a key factor in SRH’s resurgence in the tournament. However, with the early dismissals of the opening pair against RCB, SRH struggled to chase down the 207-run target.