Mumbai Indians head coach Mahela Jayawardene feels the team needs to adopt a ruthless attitude to finish off games. The five-time IPL champions, led by Rohit Sharma, have lost all their three matches so far.

“We were in the game pretty much all the way but then in the last few games we have not been ruthless enough to close games off,” Jayawardene said at the virtual news conference.

The former Sri Lanka captain has overseen several successful seasons for Mumbai Indians and said the execution of plans needed to get better.

“It’s always tough when you have a start like this but we need to look at the positives. We are playing some good cricket but it’s just that we are not closing games off. All three games we were in it but we were not able to finish it off.

“So these are concerns, specially with the ball we are not executing at the back end under pressure. Our execution has been poor so we need to make sure we brush up on that,” he said.

Pat Cummins smashed a record-equalling fastest fifty — 15-ball unbeaten 56 — to power KKR to a comfortable five-wicket win over Mumbai Indians on Wednesday.

Jayawardene though, lauded his middle-order for taking the team to a par score after a poor first 10 overs. “We knew that they have a strategy where they bowl their spinners at the back end as well so we needed to make sure that we had guys who could take them on. Suryakumar (Yadav) was one of them but initially it was a tough wicket, there was step bounce,” Jayawardene said.

“We got stuck a little bit and then we were behind and we needed to have that par score. So that was the plan in the 13th over and with a couple of big overs we got to a par score in the end.”

Jayawardene said it was important for Mumbai Indians to develop winning habits in a long tournament. These are still early days and they have bounced back from similar poor starts.

“It’s a long tournament, (losing) three games, yes it is tough but we need to make sure we get a win and get into that good habit. We just need to make sure we are in it midway through the season,” Jayawardene said.