Mumbai Indians coach points out the team’s flaws following dismal start to IPL 2025

Mumbai Indians coach points out the team’s flaws following dismal start to IPL 2025 Tezzbuzz | 07/04/2025 07:24:23

The Mumbai Indians coach in question here is Mahela Jayawardene who stated that the side needs to be more ruthless and clinical in their approach

Mumbai Indians head coach Mahela Jayawardene on Sunday said Mumbai Indians (MI) have the quality to beat any team but need to “tidy up” in all areas and be ruthless and clinical, ahead of their IPL clash against Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

5-time IPL champions Mumbai Indians are currently eighth in the points table after three defeats in four matches but hope to turn around their fortunes with the return of star pacer Jasprit Bumrah in the side.

Jayawardene said Mumbai Indians are not top-heavy but the experience that they have in their batting line-up differentiates them from the others.

“The luxury that we have in our lineup is that we have the quality in Surya, Tilak and Hardik in the middle order. Maybe the experience that we have is something that some of the other teams might not have,” Jaywardene told the reporters.

“We’re not that top-heavy. We’ve got a lot of capped players in the top order as well as in the lineup so, I don’t see the game, for us at least, going that way,” Jayawardene added.

“Yes, there are some games (in which) your top-order will click, like the way we played against Calcutta (KKR) here on the wicket and then there are some instances where we’ve (been) thrown the challenge that we lost,” Jayawardene further said.

Jayawardene said MI need to be more ruthless and clinical in their approach, like they showed against Kolkata Knight Riders last week.

“We have the quality to beat a team from many situations. We just need to be a bit more ruthless, clinical in some instances. I’m not putting it on just batting, because even in bowling we could have controlled things a bit better,” Jayawardene said.

“We wouldn’t have given those 20 runs extra on the field. These are areas that we’re trying to tidy up and try and be much more consistent all around. It is a tough tournament, we all know that. The margins are very small. We just need to try and be a bit more ruthless,” Jayawardene added..