Fancied Bangalore 支払う／賃金 price for brittle middle order
By Amlan Chakraborty
NEW DELHI, May 20 (Reuters) - Individual brilliance notwithstanding, cricket remains a team sport and the fancied 王室の 挑戦者s Bangalore discovered that the hard way as they 出口d the Indian 首相 League (IPL) プレーオフ race after yet another middle-order 炉心溶融.
Bangalore fans probably took a プレーオフ 寝台／地位 for 認めるd when the two-time 走者s-up managed to 保持する two of the biggest 指名するs in 同時代の cricket, along with middle order prospect Sarfaraz 旅宿泊所, in January.
船長／主将 Virat Kohli's 530 runs in 14 matches and 最高の，を越す order 同僚 AB de Villiers' 480 in two より小数の games 示唆する they were in no way to 非難する for the team's shortcomings.
Their brittle middle order, however, 絶えず 成し遂げるd as they did in Saturday's 30-run loss to Rajasthan 王室のs, which 結局 調印（する）d their プレーオフ 運命／宿命.
Mandeep Singh's 252 runs from 14 matches was the best by a Bangalore middle order batsman this season. Sarfaraz, 保持するd for 17.5 million rupees ($257,409) in a move that surprised many, managed to amass just 51 in six innings.
"Too much batting 強調する／ストレス on just AB de Villiers," a dejected Kohli said after the Rajasthan loss.
"A guy like AB, who has the ability to 攻撃する，衝突する fours and sixes, was knocking it around. We needed more smart 決定／判定勝ち（する）-making there and guys were just not up to the 示す and that is disappointing to see.
"It's not something that should be repeated by five, six guys in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動. One or two guys is okay, but the others should have 適用するd themselves and that wasn't the 事例／患者 tonight."
Needing 165 to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Rajasthan, Bangalore were 巡航するing at 75 for one in the ninth over with de Villiers (53) and Parthiv Patel (33) 井戸／弁護士席 始める，決める before the wheels （機の）カム off their chase 儀礼 of some poor 発射 選択s by その後の batsmen.
Bangalore's middle order woes were also evident last season, にもかかわらず having big-hitting West Indian Chris Gayle open the batting to shar e the 得点する／非難する／２０ing 重荷（を負わせる） with Kohli and de Villiers.
"We 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 強化する a middle order that hasn't been our strength for the last few years," Kohli said. "It's something we need to look 今後 to in the next season. We need to be more smart about how we compose our team, I guess.
"The 本体，大部分／ばら積みの of the 得点する／非難する／２０ing 責任／義務 and 圧力 can't always be on a guy like AB all the time in the middle order.
"Guys need to step up at the 権利 times. We certainly want to （問題を）取り上げる the 責任／義務 but there have to be 出資／貢献s at important 行う／開催する／段階s."
($1 = 67.98 Indian rupees) (報告（する）／憶測ing by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; Editing by John O'Brien)
