Rajasthan Royals director of cricket Kumar Sangakkara has said that Chris Morris hasn’t been able to replicate the kind of performance he has had during the first half of the IPL 2021.
"Morris has done brilliantly in the first half and he hasn't done as well as he or we would've liked him to in the second half," Sangakkara said in the post-match presser.
Morris returned with expensive figures of 0/50 in 4 overs against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in Dubai on Wednesday night.
"He knows it and we know it. 50 runs off 4 overs... the last over to me was a throw of the dice to try and get a wicket here or there. We were well out of the game at that point. But he's done well for us in certain parts."
Morris picked up a total of 14 wickets in seven matches in the first half of the IPL while has failed to have a single scalp to his name during the Dubai leg despite featuring in three games for them.
In fact, the right-hander who was bought by the Royals for a sum of Rs 16.25 crore during the IPL 2021 auctions earlier this year has leaked runs at a very high economy rate in the second phase of the edition.
The Royals suffered a thumping defeat against RCB after the Bangalore side chased down a target of 150 runs by 7 wickets and in the 18th over.
While captain Virat Kohli and opener Devdutt Padikkal provided a steady start and put up a partnership of 48 runs for the first wicket, Striker Bharat and Glenn Maxwell took on the onus on themselves and stitched a stand of 69 runs for the third wicket to help RCB clinch an easy win.
Bharat scored 44 off 35 while Maxwell remained unbeaten at 50 in 30 deliveries.