Ahead of the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 in the UAE, the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) star spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has pointed out the one area of their game due to which they have not performed upto their ability and reputation in recent years.
The RCB led by Virat Kohli is one of the most popular teams in the IPL, thanks to their star-studded squad and a huge fanbase. However, RCB has always looked like a solid team on paper, but have not been able to translate that on the field and are still without an IPL trophy in their cabinet.
Recently, Chahal has explained why the RCB has been struggling in the IPL over the years, as the strike bowler of the Kohli-led side feels their death bowling has been poor in the last few years which cost them 30 percent of matches in the tournament.
Chahal told Aakash Chopra in an interview on his Facebook page: “I have played for RCB for 6 years, the problem has always been, other than the one year when we had Starc, our death-over bowling.”
The leg-spinner further explained: “Because we keep a tight leash till the 16th or 17th over, but I feel we have lost at least 30% of the matches due to the last 3 overs. Due to those 3 overs, the score goes to 190 or 200. So that changes everything suddenly.”
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However, the Indian star is optimistic about RCB's chances in the upcoming IPL 2020 to be held from 19th September to 10th November in the UAE since they have now enough quality death bowlers like Chris Morris, Dale Steyn, Umesh Yadav and Navdeep Saini at the rank.
Chahal signed off by saying, “So currently we have a lot of options compared to other years. Because earlier after 16 overs, I used to bowl the 17th over if required else we had only two bowlers to bowl the last 4 overs. But now we have 3-4 options to bowl the last 4 overs. So this thing that we were missing earlier, we have covered now.”
(With Indian Express Inputs)
