{"id":342001,"date":"2026-05-28T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=342001"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:26:51","slug":"the-shortage-of-smart-batting-from-travis-head-hurt-hyderabad-badly-irfan-pathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/the-shortage-of-smart-batting-from-travis-head-hurt-hyderabad-badly-irfan-pathan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The shortage of smart batting from Travis Head hurt Hyderabad badly&#8221; &#8211; Irfan Pathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Head \u00a9BCCI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former India player turned commentator Irfan Pathan has slammed Travis Head for his lack of game awareness after the IPL 2026 Eliminator between SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Recent Chandigarh on Wednesday, May 27. Speaking in a video on his YouTube channel (Irfan Pathan), he slammed Head for giving freely his wicket to Jofra Archer as well.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThen got here the third over. That is where strategies come into play. Riyan Parag probably thought, \u2018Jofra Archer, come bowl your third over within the powerplay. You have already got two wickets, now get another. Travis Head is there, dismiss him. Klaasen is there too, get either of them out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what does Travis Head do? When runs should not coming this season, he moves away from the stumps and creates room. Just play normally, brother. Why not play normally?  the opposition captain\u2019s strategy is that a bowler who has taken wickets and is in rhythm is given one other over to take wickets. you already know that too. You&#8217;re a senior player and a World Cup winner,\u201d he again shared.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cIt was a brain-fade moment from Travis Head\u201d \u2013 Irfan Pathan<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Nevertheless, Irfan Pathan also shared that Travis Head\u2019s poor decision-making hurt SRH very much, claiming that it was a brain-fade moment from the veteran batter and a crucial moment in the sport as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shortage of smart batting from Travis Head hurt Hyderabad badly. He completely exposed his stumps by moving outside leg stump. Before that, Jofra Archer\u2019s length had mostly been in need of an excellent length and back of a length. However the moment he saw Head move away, he targeted the stumps directly and bowled him. It was a brain-fade moment from Travis Head. That was where Jofra Archer and Riyan Parag\u2019s planning was executed perfectly. It was an enormous moment within the match,\u201d Irfan Pathan concluded.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Get the newest\u00a0cricket news\u00a0here, like us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/cricfitupdate?wtsid=rdr_0r9TyTtGMzhJUSzAh\">Facebook<\/a>, and follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricFit\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/cricfit?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Instagram\u00a0<\/a>for more such updates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Head \u00a9BCCI Former India player turned commentator Irfan Pathan has slammed Travis Head for his lack of game awareness after the IPL 2026 Eliminator between SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Recent Chandigarh on Wednesday, May 27. Speaking in a video on his YouTube channel (Irfan Pathan), he slammed Head for giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20675],"tags":[19229,15059,2975,17652,36534,12334,36535,3307,990],"class_list":["post-342001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-badly","tag-batting","tag-hurt","tag-hyderabad","tag-irfan","tag-lack","tag-pathan","tag-smart","tag-travis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342004,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342001\/revisions\/342004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}