Coach got angry on SRH's defeat, Daniel Vettori called him the biggest villain

New Delhi: In the first match of the Indian Premier League 2026, Sunrisers Hyderabad suffered a crushing defeat by 6 wickets. This first match of the team was against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Sunrisers coach Daniel Vettori looked quite disappointed after the defeat at the M Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium and termed poor bowling as the biggest villain.

Describing his bowling as bad, Daniel Vettori said that the bowlers gave a lot of chances to Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal to score runs in the first match of IPL. Sunrisers scored 201 runs for nine wickets in the first match of the season, but RCB achieved the target in 15.4 overs only. No bowler looked very effective for Sunrisers in the match. Along with this, the team was clearly missing Pat Cummins, who is not playing in the opening match of this season due to injury.

Could not continue the good start – Vettori

Vettori said in the press conference after the match, “You needed a good start with the bowling, which you did by taking the wicket of Phil Salt, but we could not give our best performance.” We did not bowl disciplined. Virat and Padikkal were given a lot of chances to score runs, who performed brilliantly. Let us tell you that in the match against Sunrisers, Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli batted excellently for RCB. Both the players scored half-centuries in a stormy style, due to which RCB easily won the match.

He said that Sunrisers saw how RCB fast bowler Jacob Duffy bowled but their bowlers could not execute the strategy. He said, “We learned a lot from RCB's bowling but could not implement it.” Every match in IPL is very important, especially the initial matches. In such a situation, negligence cannot be done.