Faf du Plessis at the presentation ceremony after RCB’s win against SRH© BCCI/Sportzpix
Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis was feeling relieved after his team broke a six-match losing streak with a 35-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL here on Thursday. “In the last two matches, we have shown great signs of fight. SRH’s game was over 270, we got 260. KKR’s game too – 1 run. We were close for a while, but you have to win the match to gain confidence. We need to sleep comfortably as a group tonight. You can’t show confidence in the group, only performance gives confidence,” he said at the post-match presentation ceremony.
While Virat Kohli has been the top scorer for them, Du Plessis is happy with the fact that other batsmen are also scoring runs at a fast pace.
“The competition is so strong, the teams are so strong that if you are not at 100 per cent you will suffer. Now more people are scoring runs. In the first half of the tournament only Virat was scoring runs. Greeny is scoring runs now.” Be on a large scale for that.”
Chasing 207, SRH’s ultra-aggressive approach with the bat backfired as they were 69-5 in the 8th over and could not recover after that.
“It’s not an ideal night. The ball hasn’t been very good throughout our innings and unfortunately a few wickets have also fallen. We were the ones to bat first, it seems to be working for us. Before the last few wins, We were thinking we were a bowler.” -First team,” Pat Cummins, SRH captain, said.
“The boys are performing really well, it’s T20 cricket, you’re not going to win every game. Don’t pay too much attention to it.” About his high-risk and high-reward approach with the bat, Cummins said: “I think that’s our strong suit. It’s not going to work in every game. One or two games where it didn’t go our way early on, “We still managed to get a good score. Still, that seems to be the way forward for our boys.”
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