This year’s Indian Premier League (IPL2024) has not been kind to Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), as Faf Du Plessis‘s team has lost six straight games. However, in the last two games, RCB has shown great form, winning against Sunrises Hyderabad (SRH) and Gujrat Titans (GT). These displays could cast doubt on the player’s and management’s ability to choose the best combinations. During the post-match presentation, Faf Du Plessis expressed his satisfaction with the players’ progress.
Last Saturday, Shubman Gill’s Titans played the Faf Du Plessis Challengers in Amadabad in a doubleheader. RCB led the game with a successful chase of 200 runs and won by 9 wickets. The captains, Faf Du Plessis with Virat Kohli, started the game off well, where Faf Du Plessis scoring 24 runs in 12 balls with a strike rate of 200. However, Kohli, the run machine, kept himself in control with Will Jaks, scoring 70 runs in 44 and Will Jaks’ century of 41. These two have combined for more than 150 runs, which makes it easy for RCB to chase the target.
GT, on the other hand, performed admirably in the first innings as the opener was unable to give the team the same kind of start that Sai Sudarshan gave them, scoring 84 runs in 49 deliveries. acquire the outstanding assistance of another Indian Shining Start Shahrukh Khan, who scores 58 in 30 balls, to establish a strong working relationship. Skilled Miller takes the bat and demonstrates his class by scoring 26 runs off of 19 deliveries.
Faf Du Plessis Praised RCB’s performance against GT
At the post-match presentation, captain Faf Du Plessis demonstrated and stated that the wicket appears to be excellent for batting, with the bowlers setting a pace of 200, which appears to be attainable in 16 overs but requires some effort. Nevertheless, he added, “We progressed in both departments since the last two games; there is a different energy inside the players in both departments, and the guys have done a great job. The confidence level of the players is showing everything, and we are doing well now.”
“I thought it was a really good wicket. When we bowled first, we felt like it certainly was a score that we could chase, obviously not 16 overs. It feels like we’ve made some real progress in both departments. We were way off in the beginning of the tournament, but it feels like there’s confidence in the group and you can see that in both bowling and batting. The guys are doing a really good job. The bowlers took some great confidence from that night and you can see the following performance has been really good. We are doing the basics much better now,” said Faf Du Plessis