IPL 2017, RCB vs GL: 5 things that went wrong for Royal Challengers Bangalore
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s playoff hopes took another huge blow as they were solidly beaten by the Gujarat Lions at Bangalore. Being put in to bat first, RCB were off to a horrible start with their three batting pillars Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, and AB de Villiers flopping again.
However, Pawan Negi’s 32 and Kedar Jadhav’s 31, assisted by Aniket Choudhary’s 15 took them to 134 in their 20 overs.
In reply, RCB were off to a good start as they dismissed openers Ishan Kishan and Brendon McCullum early. However, Aaron Finch’s blistering knock of 72 from just 34 deliveries assisted by skipper Suresh Raina’s 34 from 30 deliveries took the Lions home within 13.5 overs.
The defeat for RCB meant that another defeat would knock them out of the tournament. Andrew Tye was adjudged the Man of the Match for his brilliant spell of 3/12.
Here are five things that went wrong for RCB during the match.
#5 Bowlers not cashing on the good start
Following a pretty lacklustre show from the batting department, Samuel Badree gave RCB a brilliant start to their target defence by taking the wickets of Ishan Kishan and the dangerous Brendon McCullum within the powerplay.
Badree, however, could not cash on his good start as Aaron Finch hit him for 15 runs in his third over and he wasn’t called up to bowl another over. The other bowlers bowled pretty sloppily and by the 10th over, it seemed that the loss of their openers did not affect the Gujarat Lions.
RCB’s bowling has been disappointing this season so far and if they are to stand a chance of reaching the play-offs then they will have to work a lot on their bowling department or else it will be IPL 2014 all over again for them.