Royal Challengers Bangalore head coach Daniel Vettori said his team is ready to handle Kings XI Punjab’s Chris Gayle’s thunderstorm, as they are aware of his batting prowess.
“We probably won’t anticipate playing against Chris tomorrow. But if he does, if any team knows how good he is that is RCB and what he has done for the team for a number of years. We are fully aware of his strengths and how we can handle him,” Vettori said of Gayle who played for RCB earlier.
Gayle did not play KXIP’s last match against Delhi Daredevils. Hopefully, the team can also tackle K L Rahul who is in fantastic form and knows the conditions here pretty well, Vettori said.
“KL is obviously in fantastic form in the first game and he knows these conditions. He missed all last year for us, it was sad not to see him perform (play at all) but he has gone away to KXIP and started exceptionally well. Hopefully we can tackle him well,” he said.
On Virat Kohli batting number three, Vettori said the team needs to be flexible and dynamic throughout the season.
“The reason we wanted Brendon and Quinton at the top is because they are so dynamic in the Power Play and then AB can take over in the middle stages. At this stage, that is the plan but it can all change,” he added.
