Delhi Capitals (DC) pacer Kagiso Rabada said his team shouldn’t take its foot off the pedal despite the franchise confirming a top-two finish in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL 2021) in the UAE.
Sitting at top of the IPL 14 points table with 20 points from 13 matches, Delhi Capitals (DC) will take on third-placed Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in their final league match on Friday, October 8, in Dubai, and Rabada said DC must continue to play the way they have been playing in the IPL 2021 so far.
He believes that DC can't afford to take its foot off the pedal as his team is entering the business end of the ongoing IPL 14, where they are looking for their maiden IPL title.
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Rabada said in a DC release on Thursday: “It's been a great season. We've given ourselves another chance to play for a spot in the final, so we are thrilled by that. Even though the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore doesn't hold a lot of significance for us, we should not take our foot off the pedal. We should just keep playing the way we have been playing.”
On the DC’s loss against RCB in the first half of the IPL 2021 in Ahmedabad, the pacer said: “Our loss against RCB in the first half of the tournament is definitely a thing of the past. However, we know how threatening they can be. They have some really destructive batters and Harshal Patel has been doing extremely well. We need to believe in our strengths. The result in our last match against RCB is a thing of the past, but we still need to learn from that result.”
Speaking about DC’s last thrilling win over Chennai Super Kings on Monday, Rabada said: “It wasn't the most ideal situation, but I backed myself to put the team in a winning position when we needed 2 runs from 3 balls, by at least getting Hetmyer on strike. I tried to watch the ball and anticipate where Bravo was going to bowl. I just wanted to get bat on the ball and that worked for us.”
The 26-year-old has insisted that DC will look to play its best cricket at the business end of the tournament in the UAE.
He signed off by saying, “We've done really great work so far. We have earned the right to be in this position and we have been in this position before, which helps. We are going to give it our all in the upcoming matches and look to play our best cricket in the business end of the tournament.”
(With ANI Inputs)
