Cameron White is impressed by Kumar Sangakkara's selfless act.u00a0

"It had a little bit of grass and a little bit of moisture. Wicket is changing here from time to time said Harbhajan at the end of the press conference there (prize distribution). What I understand is that there is a different wicket every time (here). Probably not an ideal Twenty20 wicket, but both teams had to play on it." White felt his team, which remained at the bottom of the table with just three points from eight games, fell short by at least 20 runs to make a match of it.

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"The basic turning point is we were not able to score 20 more runs. Unfortunately we failed to bat out our overs. At the end of the day we are not going to win too many T20 games when we score 101," said the stand-in skipper. White was all praise for his team's pace spearhead Dale Steyn for the wonderful exhibition of swing bowling that he unleashed to beat Mumbai Indians no. 3 Rohit Sharma repeatedly in front of the capacity crowd.

"It was unbelievable, wasn't it? It must have been fantastic to sit on the sidelines (and watch it) like you guys did sitting in the press box. It was really fast, swing and accuracy as well against Rohit Sharma who I think is one of the best players - I find it very hard to believe he is not playing for India in all formats of the game.

"It showed the class of Dale to get the ball to go past his outside edge regularly tonight and it was a great contest between those two for a while Dale's record in all formats of International cricket speaks for itself." Asked whether Steyn and Juan Theron, another South African who bowled very well against Pune Warriors, could have made a difference in tandem, White said his team did not have the luxury to play both in the eleven.

"The way our team is we need to play three overseas batsmen. It's not ideal to play both Steyn and Theron together. We don't have the luxury of doing it because our local batters are not that strong," he said.u00a0