Add to that the injury woes that ruled out charismatic allrounder Dwayne Bravo entirely and sidelined James Faulkner and Ravindra Jadeja for the early part of the season, and Gujarat failed to provide any kind of threat to their opposition. An over-dependency on overseas batsmen proved costly and Raina admitted on air that he was not confident of defending totals with the bowling attack he had. Tye featured in five more games before dislocating his shoulder against Mumbai Indians (the match they lost in the Super-Over). In 12 matches, the No 1 Test bowler could only manage five wickets and gave away runs at an economy of 9.18. The likes Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Manpreet Gony and Irfan Pathan added only to the nostalgia factor of the IPL.

Source: Times of India May 16, 2017 05:03 UTC