IPL 2018: Four tactical moves which can help SRH snap out of their losing run

#2 Move Shakib up the batting order

Shakib can help SRH score at a sustained healthy rate through the middle overs

Most of the season, the Bangladeshi premium all-rounder has been underutilized with the bat, often coming out to bat as low as number seven. Provided he is a clean striker of the ball, but not entirely in all conventional senses. He scores more freely when the situation demands that the scorecard be kept ticking rather than smash every ball into obscurity.

If slotted up the order at four, Shakib can ideally bat in the period right in the proximity of the field restrictions. His intelligent brand of cricket and match awareness helps him manoeuvre the fields, thereby preventing a sudden drop-down in the scoring rates.

He and an in-form Williamson, if batting together, can cause trouble for the opposition with their contrasting yet equally effective batting styles. This will also allow a struggling Manish Pandey a slot lower down the order where he can assume a rather more comfortable role of playing purely as a finisher.