SRH doesn't take any team lightly in IPL: Heinrich Klaasen comments after LSG loss

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Heinrich Klaasen has claimed that Sunrisers Hyderabad don't take any team lightly in the IPL after their loss to LSG on Thursday, March 27. Lucknow defeated Hyderabad by 5 wickets as the SRH's destructive batting was tied down in Hyderabad.

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00:00Look, we didn't score enough runs. I think about 210-220 was pass score.

00:06One or two jammy wickets. One caught down the left side and one hit off the bowler's arm.

00:13So, it's part of the game. We just didn't score enough runs on a good wicket.

00:18A couple of weeks into the match, the Bullets are 2-0 down from the last match.

00:24So, do you think you can catch up?

00:31Not at all. We don't take any team lightly in the RPL.

00:37Everyone is playing good cricket, especially on a wicket like this.

00:41You can put anybody in attack under the pump.

00:46They bowled well in the middle as well, so credit needs to go to them as well.

00:50They picked up early wickets that stopped a little bit of the momentum.

00:53But that's all part of the game. We just didn't score enough runs by one or two wickets early in the innings.

00:59It was difficult to keep on going with the momentum.

01:02This wicket is a good wicket, so it wasn't enough.

01:07Do you think it's imperative for both the openers to be at the top?

01:15Sorry?

01:16Do you think it's a must for both the openers to be at the top?

01:21Not at all. If you look at our batting line-up, we're destructive until batter number eight.

01:26So, you don't need Travis and Abhishek to come off every time.

01:31We're good enough to score runs without them as well.

01:35They put teams under a lot of pressure when they do come off, so that makes our job a little bit easier.

01:40But you will never have a season where both of those score a thousand runs.

01:45It's the way we play. It is on the riskier side.

01:50But no, we're big enough players to know that we need to do it on our own as well.

01:59Can you share your thoughts on Aniket Vardhane, who seems to have a team for Leeds against us?

02:11Look, I didn't know much about him when I arrived here.

02:16I spoke to Dan and he says we've signed two guys.

02:20Abhinav as well, he hasn't come off in the last two games.

02:25Those two guys, he's got something special about them.

02:29They also just need to find their feet in this crazy environment.

02:34He played an unbelievable knock tonight and the previous game.

02:38Also, the one or two boundaries that he hit.

02:41Give him time and he will be someone that a lot of people speak about.

02:46Do you think Samir Dhaka could have taken responsibility?

03:05That's what myself and Atish try to do there.

03:08It's a good wicket. There's not a lot always in this wicket.

03:13To get starts is normal on this wicket.

03:17Myself and Atish try to reset the innings there.

03:22We were about to pull the trigger when I went out.

03:25We just kept on losing wickets in the wrong times and that's part of the game.

03:30It's something that we will take note of and make sure that it doesn't happen too often in this game.

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