We should have used more commonsense: Ganguly

Pune Warriors skipper Sourav Ganguly on Thursday blamed his batsmen for their seven-wicket loss to Kings XI Punjab and said they should have shown more ''commonsense'' to post a bigger total on the board.

Pune were dismissed for a modest 115 in just 19 overs after Punjab won the toss and inserted the visitors and Ganguly said toss played an important role.

"It was an important toss to win, we would have also wanted to bowl first but this was a good performance from the Punjab bowlers and you cannot take the credit out of the Kings XI," Ganguly said after the match.

"We should have shown a bit more commonsense and get to 140, it should have been a good total. We had 115 runs on board and we needed to be a lot more smarter," he added.
The former India skipper said he was disappointed and hoped that his team would be more sensible from now on.

"Disappointed because we have a good bowling attack, every time we get to 160, it would be hard for opposition. We need to be more sensible with our batting and hopefully we will learn from this loss," he said.

Asked why did he bring Rahul Sharma late, Ganguly said: "I kept Rahul Sharma away for some time because we wanted to try out our seamers under those conditions. There was movement early on but he did bowl when he came, unfortunately we didnt have enough runs on board."