Faf Du Plessis Tears Into Siraj and Co., Says ‘We Might Have to Make 250+’ as RCB ‘Don't Have Weapons in Bowling’

One of the perennial weaknesses of Royal Challengers Bengaluru is their bowling and the lack of bite in their bowling unit was brutally exposed by Mumbai Indians on Thursday night when the MI batters demolished a target of 197 in under 16 overs, with every RCB bowler going at an economy of over 10 runs per over.

RCB posted a strong total of 196/3 riding on the back of three quickfire fifties from du Plessis himself (61 off 40), Rajat Patidar (50 off 26) and Dinesh Karthik (53*off 23), yet they failed to defend the total against the marauding MI batting attack led by Ishan Kishan (69 off 34) and Suryakumar Yadav (52 off 19).

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In their previous game also, despite Kohli’s century, RCB had succumbed to a six-wicket loss to Rajasthan Royals failing to defend another big score of 183. After the MI game, skipper du Plessis made an honest assessment of the game saying their his team does not possess enough firepower in the bowling department and added from a batting perspective they have to push for a score of over 200 to make up for the lacklustre bowling.

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“I feel like from a batting perspective, we have to push for that 200. We don’t have as many weapons in our bowling. So it comes down to the batting,” said du Plessis during the post-match chat with the host broadcasters, adding, “From a bowling perspective, we have lacked penetration. We have to get them two or three down in the powerplay. Always feels like we are on the back foot after the first four overs”.

He further added that dew also played a factor in RCB’s inability to stem the flow of run.

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“It’s a tough pill to swallow – a combination of two things, very wet (the conditions with dew), I need to somehow win some tosses, secondly, they played well, put the pressure on us and we made a lot of mistakes (especially during the powerplay). We knew dew would be a factor, we might have needed to make 250+, but they made 196 look very less,” he said.