Strong Opposition from Puttur BJP Leaders Delays Arun Kumar Puttila's Inclusion
Puttur: Arun Kumar Puttila, who contested the last assembly elections as an independent rebel, causing the BJP to secure the 3rd place in the Puttur Vidhan Sabha constituency, faced widespread opposition from Puttur BJP leaders regarding his rejoining the BJP. As a result, his inclusion in the party has been postponed.
Puttila's independent candidacy in the previous elections had garnered attention at the state level. Subsequently, he established the Puttila Parivar and aimed to expand its presence to the district level. In an attempt to put an end to this, several BJP leaders sought to bring him back into the BJP fold.
Following B. Y. Vijayendra's appointment as the state president of BJP, Puttila family leaders, including Arun Kumar Puttila, visited Bangalore and met Vijayendra. This meeting suggested that Arun Kumar Puttila would join the BJP, and an official joining program was scheduled at the district BJP office in Mangalore on Friday evening. However, strong opposition from Puttur BJP leaders led to the postponement of Arun Kumar Puttila's BJP joining.
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During a meeting held at the Puttur BJP office on Friday, it was decided that all party office bearers should be consulted before his official induction. The demand was made that Arun Kumar Puttila must adhere to party rules before officially joining BJP, and local officials should be taken into confidence. It was also decided that Puttila should not be given any status, including mandal chairmanship, at this time.
Reports indicate that the BJP district president Satish Kumpala has deferred Arun Kumar Puttila's joining following the demands of local BJP leaders.
Arun Kumar Puttila was prepared to visit the district BJP office and election office on Friday. However, district president Satish Kumpala's arrival in Puttur and subsequent closed meeting at the party office resulted in the announcement that Puttila's joining was misrepresented by the media. This indicates that the leaders are obstructing Puttila from joining the BJP.
In Friday's meeting, party leaders Sulochana Bhatt, Premananda Shetty, District General Secretary Yatish Arwar, former MLA Sanjiva Mathandur, Dr. M.K. Prasad, Mandal President Saja Radhakrishna Alva, former MLA Mallika Prasad, OBC Morcha State Secretary R. C. Narayan, Gopalkrishna Herele, Appiah Maniyani, Bhami Ashok Shenai, Radhakrishna Borkar Jeevandhara Jain, Rajesh Bannur, Chandrasekhara Rao Bapplige, Ajith Rai Hosamane, Dinesh Panjiga, and others were present.
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A 99-run loss is unacceptable: Hayden blames batting horror
Ahmedabad (PTI): Gujarat Titans' batting coach Matthew Hayden was scathing about their 99-run defeat to Mumbai Indians, blaming a "horror" batting display and poor death bowling for the heavy loss in the IPL.
From being 44/3 in 5.5 overs, MI hammered 73 runs in the last four overs to post a challenging 199/5 here on Monday. In reply, GT were bundled out for 100.
"I expect our margins to be a lot smaller than 100 (99). That is an unacceptable scorecard for our batting unit," the legendary Australian opener told media in the post-match interaction.
"It was just a horrible day for us today. Truth be told, there was nothing good about this day, really, apart from Rabada's performance with the ball. so we've got some work to do, definitely."
GT boast a strong batting line-up in Sai Sudharsan (759 runs), Shubman Gill (717), and Jos Buttler (538). They have also added New Zealand’s explosive Glenn Phillips in the middle order alongside Shahrukh Khan and Rahul Tewatia.
"When you look down at our batting line-up, we've got wonderful players that have to be in a better mindset and better position to take their opportunities. That is our expectations and has been since the conception of this Gujarat Titans franchise...
"So you can't be sitting here and being happy about, a 100-run (99) margin game in a 20-over game. I mean, back in my day, 100 runs was almost a winning total in 50-over cricket!"
The 54-year-old said GT lost the game in the powerplay.
"Well, middle order was undoubtedly exposed today. When they're coming in with six overs, you know that you're in deep trouble. The thing about the power plays is that you can't win it from there, especially in a run chase, but you can definitely lose it, and we lost it in the power play," he said.
Shahrukh (35 off 25 balls) and Tewatia (49 off 42) have not fared well this season and Hayden feels the duo along with Phillips (67 off 54 balls) have been struggling because the top order has been below its best.
"The relevance behind balls faced when you look at, for example, someone like Glenn Phillips -- his record in T20 cricket is an impressive strike rate and you'll take that all day long in the majority of games," Hayden said.
"However, you need an upfront batting effort where you consistently taking the lion's share of the batting. We shouldn't be allowing, Tiwu (Tewatia) or Shahrukh or these guys lots of balls. That's not their role. That's not what they train for."
Hayden said GT has an aggressive and adaptable unit but their execution fell apart on the day.
"We are a very good thinking batting unit. We're not a conservative batting unit. You don't go out and get 200s as often as we do being conservative. But they're an adaptive batting unit. ...they've got their roles and they play them and today they simply didn't.
"So the worry isn't just today about the middle order. It'd be unfair to say that, they were going to go on and score 13 runs an over because by that stage, I felt like as a batting coach, I was on the mast and the boat was sinking."
It was poorly executed bowling effort
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Hayden also pointed to poor execution in the death overs.
"I feel like one-dimensional is very unfair on a world-class bowling attack, but I will take on board it was a poorly executed bowling effort this evening.
"When you look back at those last four overs, that was just a 'horror story' -- 73 off the last four is unacceptable as world-class players. That bowling line-up has to reflect on that performance... It was purely an executional thing."
He added that GT were below par with the ball on a surface that didn’t fully justify the high total.
"We're very average with the ball, firstly, on a wicket that I really felt was probably a 175-type wicket.
"When you look historically at this black soil pitch on No. 5, it's a 200-wicket for the loss of five batters. That's been its winning first-inning score, and today it wasn't that wicket (199/5)... It was visible that it had cracks in it. It was visible that it was up and down.
"So credit also has to go to Tilak Varma, who put in a wonderful performance. It wasn't a cookie-cutter type performance. It was a dominant performance down the ground. He read the play nicely. He was able to pick up and play with power and precision."
Hayden said the chase was still within reach but poor shot selection proved costly.
"And when you reflect on our own batting, we had one side of the ground that was a little more inaccessible than the other, and we lost, what, three wickets into the bigger side of that boundary.
"And it wasn't an impossible total. 200 still is a total that I would back our three world-class players at the top of the order to etch into that a bit more and then allow our more sort of game players. An opportunity to set out their stalls and bat deep into the innings."
