Former South African cricketer Shaun Pollock believes that Rishabh Pant’s comments after Lucknow Super Giants’ Super Over loss to Kolkata Knight Riders may have indirectly placed the blame on the team management.After LSG lost to KKR in the Super Over, Pant said that having too many opinions during the match made decision making difficult.The match had ended in the Super Cup after Mohamed Al-Shami scored six goals from the last ball of the half. But Sunil Narine then bowled a Super Over for KKR and helped his team win.Two decisions by LSG captain Rishabh Pant came under heavy criticism – Digvesh Rathi giving the over, with Rinku Singh hitting four successive overs, sending Nicholas Pooran to the Super Over.After the match, Pant said: “A lot of minds don’t make it easy on the ground.”Bullock said such a statement from the captain was not ideal because it seemed to point the finger at the management group.“It’s not really good that this information is coming from the captain because he’s basically saying there are a lot of people providing me with information and he’s kind of under the leadership of the management group that they’ve got,” Pollock told Cricbuzz.
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He also said that it is difficult to fully judge the situation because outsiders do not know how decisions are made inside the LSG dressing room.Bullock added: “We may not know how it works; that’s the problem. You don’t know who has the final say, you don’t know who sits with them and understands what they’re feeling, or who has the discussions with them.”But Pant also spoke about the need for the entire team to take responsibility after the defeat.In the post-match presentation, he said that the team needed a short break to reset and handle the pressure better.“I think we definitely need a break. I think we will rebound. There is always pressure, it will always be a pressure game, but at the same time, we have to look for answers inside, not outside. And keep it simple. We need to take responsibility – every single person. Like, it can’t be about one or two people. It has to be about the entire unit, and a lot of people will definitely take responsibility for that,” Pant said.