The Lack of Variety in RCB Bowling in Their Recent With KKR
The Indian Premier League (IPL) provides an arena for the cricketing glamour. Through the fiesta appearance of the best players from all across the world. Yet, the match on the 29th of this past match between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) unveiled a major flaw in RCB’s bowling attack performance.
All About The Match
The game of match RCB vs KKR exposed the latest point of difficulty it was having. The bowlers did not know how to control the array of batters who were successfully putting on hard hits during the match. Bowlers will directly defend themselves by featuring the dew that was present. But Sunil Narine and Venkatesh Iyer changed track during the second innings of the match.
A Captain’s Role
A captain’s individuality lies behind handling the bowling attack and planning the attack. While keeping in mind the team composition never gets overlooked. The captain shall be looking into the fitness of all the bowlers. Not only that they must also be capable of adjusting their tactics to the ongoing situations.
The Absence of Alternative Strategies
Another issue that gets highlighted is the lack of a backup plan. When the initial plan didn’t perform well, RCB bowlers appeared to have no ideas on the spot; that’s because they didn’t develop other strategies that fit the game.
The Lack of Variety
One of the core problems exposed during the game was that RCB lacked attack bowlers for different situations. Bowlers used to keep on switching to their familiar deliveries only which dramatically failed to keep the KKR batters to settle down.
The Need for Improvement
This match has awakened RCB’s sensibilities, throwing light on the issues that need to be tackled by them. To break the chain, they need to be a more perfect and skillful attack, that can handle different situations and respond adequately to the riddles the opposition may park ahead of them.
The Statistics
The statistics have it that KKR bowlers sent a total of 22 balls of less than 120kmph, and conceded 20 runs in their crucial contribution of three wickets. Additionally, the RCB bowlers replaced 36 balls under 120kmph, but with it, they got 40 runs and took only a wicket.
The Way Forward
RCB should take on this loss as an insightful way to enhance their performance in the next matches. They have to create an always innovating bowling, and must only allow them to put in place a plan B like the one they do not find successful.
The main factor behind that variation was the places where KKR and RCB bowlers pitched. Their slower balls from the previous team’s deliveries landed the leg-side lineup This is very well on the effective side rather than on the leg side or pitched slightly outside the off stump. While it shows that KKR is well-prepared for the game. It also indicates that they had planned for the said pitch and bowlers.