Royal Challengers Bengaluru will not make a mountain out of a molehill after their loss against Delhi Capitals. RCB, playing at home, failed with the bat on April 18, scoring just 175 runs against Axar Patel’s Delhi. Considering Chinnaswamy’s lofty standards, they were far short of the par total, but managed to stretch the game to the final over on Saturday.
Despite restricting Delhi well for the majority of the game, the total proved too small as David Miller and Tristan Stubbs pulled off the chase with one ball remaining. RCB director of cricket Mo Bobat reacted to their first loss at home, stating that the team was not going to overanalyse the game.
“Yeah, we probably weren’t as fluent as we normally are. Obviously, we’ve been a pretty strong batting unit so far in the games gone. I wouldn’t over-analyse that too much. We’ll review honestly like we always do,” Bobat said in the post-match press conference.
“We’ll always consider things that we did well and things that we could improve. Ultimately, we’ve been batting very well through this competition. So, we’ll take some learning from this game and then we’ll try and get back into our normal groove in the next one,” he added.
The RCB innings started well when Phil Salt took on Auqib Nabi inside the powerplay. RCB were 99/2 by the 10-over mark, but were not able to capitalise on it due to some good execution from the Delhi bowling unit.
In the second half of the innings, Lungi Ngidi, Mukesh Kumar, and Kuldeep Yadav put up a terrific display, restricting the home side to just 175 runs for the loss of 8 wickets.
