Robin Uthappa's dropped catch cost us the match, says Sanju Samson

The day began well for Samson as he scored a 38-ball 60 to guide his side to 123/3 with six overs remaining. However, some great death bowling by KKR restricted the visitors to a sub-par total of 160.

However, Kagiso Rabada's spell at the start of the innings gave Delhi a foothold in the game as he dismissed Sunil Narine for just four runs. It could have gotten better for Delhi when Uthappa sliced a Rabada delivery into the air but a miscommunication, of the hilarious kind, resulted in Samson and Amit Mishra making a mess of the opportunity. Uthappa, who was on nine at the time of the drop, ended up scoring 59 off just 33 balls as Kolkata secured a 7-wicket win.

“Catches do count. Catches win matches and there was a dropped chance and he (Uthappa) made use of it. I think that cost us the match,” Samson told a post-match press conference.

“It’s a busy crowd here, lot of noise, so it’s not easy to communicate when the ball goes up. It happens in a match but I think we need to move on. We have a match day after. We have to forget it and move on.

“I think I am still learning. I am a 22-year-old and have a long career ahead. I need to finish games and need to play the whole 20 overs. Whenever you play 20 overs, the team has the best chances to win. I am trying for that. When you play a sport like cricket, failure is more than success. We all as sportsmen know how to come back from failures. 

"So I think we need to keep going as life. In life also we have failures. We all have doubts but we need a positive mindset. We need to challenge ourselves and move on positively."

There have been 16 hat-tricks taken the IPL so far and there is Amit Mishra who has 3 hat-tricks to his name!

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