Faf Du Plessis Reaction: In the 10th match of IPL 2024, Royal Challengers Bangalore had to face defeat against Kolkata Knight Riders. KKR defeated RCB by 7 wickets at their home ground i.e. M Chinnaswamy Stadium. After this defeat, Bengaluru captain Faf du Plessis explained why they had to face defeat in the match against Kolkata. Du Plessis blamed the pitch for the defeat. According to him the pitch was deceitful.
After the match, Faf du Plessis said, “It's strange, in the first innings we thought it was a two-paced wicket, you could see when the boys bowled cutters, back of the length, the boys struggled. Knowing that That it gets a little easier in the evening, we thought it was a good score. A little bit of dew came. Looking at the way we batted in the first innings, Virat was struggling to hit the ball because there was a lot of pace. There was shortage and double speed.”
Regarding poor bowling in the powerplay, he said, “You can always know after the game, we can say that maybe we could have tried one or two things but the way both of them (Narine and Salt) were hitting the ball, some good batting there. , He put pressure on our bowlers. He played strong cricketing shots and took the game away to a great extent. With Narine there, you cannot go with spin, against him you have to use pace. It is good for Salt. “The match-up and the way he played. He was brilliant, broke the match in six overs.”
The RCB captain further added, “We tried the spin options with Maxwell, finger spinners are effective here, but there was not much spin on the night, it is one of those things with the right and left hand combinations, but As you saw Venky (Venkatesh Iyer) playing against a right-arm spinner, you feel it is easier to hit short boundaries with a spinner. Ideally you want someone who can spin the ball both ways. , but with today's team setup we didn't have anyone like that.”
He further said about Vijaykumar Vaishya, “Very brilliant, he did not get chances. We saw the first innings and thought of bringing Karn Sharma. But we thought that someone who can bowl good slower, he is probably the best batsman on the pitch. Will be a difficult bowler. Russell bowled cutters 80 percent of his balls. We learned something from him and he was the best bowler of the evening.”
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