Anuj Rawat and Shahbaz Ahmed haven’t performed when given a chance, says Sanjay Bangar
With this loss, RCB slipped to the seventh spot with 10 points from 11 matches and coach Sanjay Bangar believes the young batters of the team haven’t stepped up for the team in crucial situations.
“They are not progressing at a very good rate. Our younger batter Mahipal Lomror has been the one who has taken his chances well but Anuj Rawat and Shahbaz Ahmed whenever they have gotten those opportunities, unfortunately, they haven’t been able to capitalise on it,” he said during the post-match presentation.
“But that’s the learning you have to be patient with the younger players and expect that they will take their opportunities and churn out match-winning performances for the team,” he added.
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When asked about RCB’s Indian batters’ performance, Bangar said, “We were built in such a way wherein Maxwell, Faf, Virat and Dinesh were going to be the fulcrum of the batting unit and the younger players would play around them,” he said.
Banagr said that they were 10 runs short and they couldn’t get the momentum to score those extra runs.
“We certainly felt 10 runs short. We lost three wickets in the middle phase wherein Maxwell, Faf and Lomror got out. And towards the end we couldn’t get the impetus which was required to get those extra 10 runs,” he said.
When asked about his opinion on Faf and Maxwell attacking together, he said, “cricket is changing and we have already seen the effect of impact player on the way the teams are approaching.”
“Everybody is taking a lot of risks and they wanna go ball one knowing there’s batting cover, if at all, even bowling cover. It adds a new dimension to the game and has made the game more attractive, fast paced and maybe in a couple of years you’d find not one substitute but two impact players and that’s always going to change the game,” he added.
