Faf Du Plessis Statement After Defeat Against Gujarat Titans: In a do or die match on Sunday (May 21), Royal Challengers Bangalore faced a 6-wicket defeat against Gujarat Titans. With this defeat, RCB’s journey in IPL 2023 ended. After the match, Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis raised questions on his own team. Faf told last why this season also Bangalore team missed out on winning the title.
After the match, the RCB captain said, “Very disappointed. Tonight we came out with a very strong team. Shubman Gill scored a brilliant century. The ground was very wet in the second innings. The ground was wet in the first innings as well. Had to change the ball many times. Virat Kohli played an unbelievable innings. We thought we had put up a good score. But Shubman Gill played well and took the match away from us.”
Faf further said, “Talking about batting, the top-4 played well. But the middle order could not do well throughout the season. Especially in the death overs. Kohli played brilliantly throughout the season. Maybe we scored less than 40 throughout the season.” Didn’t make the opening partnership. We need to finish the innings well in the end.
He further said, “Dinesh Karthik batted brilliantly last year and scored runs at the end. But this season he could not do that. And if you look at the teams that have been successful, they have batsmen at number five and six. Excellent hitter.”
match score
RCB had scored 197 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs after playing first. Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 101 runs in 61 balls for Bangalore. During this, 13 fours and a six came out of his bat. At the same time, Faf scored 28 runs in 19 balls. Apart from this, Glenn Maxwell 11, Dinesh Karthik 00 and Mahipal Lomror were dismissed after scoring one run. After this, Shubman Gill played a brilliant match-winning inning of 104 runs in 52 balls for Gujarat to chase the target of 198 runs. During this, Gill hit 5 fours and 8 sixes. Apart from this, Vijay Shankar played an important inning of 53 runs in 35 balls. Shankar hit seven fours and 2 sixes.
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