{"id":31240,"date":"2018-05-16T11:55:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T11:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=31240"},"modified":"2018-05-16T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T11:55:38","slug":"ajinkya-rahane-rues-rajasthan-royals-lack-of-partnerships-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ajinkya-rahane-rues-rajasthan-royals-lack-of-partnerships-in-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajinkya Rahane rues Rajasthan Royals\u2019 lack of partnerships in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rajasthan Royals\u2019 (RR) batting looked cavalier but was defined by their skipper Ajinkya Rahane as being too positive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes when you play like that, you get over 200,\u201d said Rahane, after RR\u2019s six-wicket defeat at Eden Gardens here on Tuesday. \u201cAs a team we have to learn from our mistakes here and go back to Jaipur and play well there.\u201d On Saturday, RR finish the league phase against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in what will be a must-win game for both.<\/p>\n<p>Rahane attributed the big loss to RR\u2019s inability to build partnerships. \u201cThe start with we got was magnificent. But after that I feel we did not get any partnership. We lost because we didn\u2019t apply ourselves in the middle while batting. Even in T20 cricket, you have to apply your mind. Through this tournament, I don\u2019t think we batted well except for Jos Buttler. We thought 175-180 was the score possible on this wicket,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The RR skipper said the team must now believe in itself. \u201cCricket\u2019s a funny game, we all know, but we have to learn from our mistakes and get it right in the one league game we have,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler though won\u2019t be there both being called for England Test duty. \u201cWe will miss them. Buttler\u2019s inputs on batting and Stokes\u2019 bowling; he was superb today,\u201d said Rahane. Stokes took 3\/15 here on Tuesday and who knows what would happened if he had a bigger target to defend.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Royals\u2019 (RR) batting looked cavalier but was defined by their skipper Ajinkya Rahane as being too positive. \u201cSometimes when you play like that, you get over 200,\u201d said Rahane, after RR\u2019s six-wicket defeat at Eden Gardens here on Tuesday. \u201cAs a team we have to learn from our mistakes here and go back to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31242,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31240\/revisions\/31242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}