RCB captain Rajat Patidar turned the IPL upside down with his stunning 33-ball 93 in the Qualifier 1 match against the Gujarat Titans on Tuesday. Though Patidar also got lucky early on, with a couple of dropped chances, he truly used the chances and produced a match-winning knock as well.
“I remember at some point last season, I think I called him a spin-basher, and I think he got quite annoyed with me because I was implying that it was only spin. So I think he’s probably trying to prove a point to me. But look, he’s worked very hard on his game. He works incredibly hard with both DK and Andy. And, you know, one of the things about Rajat is he tends to middle the ball quite often. And I think that’s a good sign. So whether he’s facing pace bowling, spin bowling, off the front or back foot, the ball hits the middle of his bat quite a lot. So I think he’s got some really good and sound basics,” Bobat said.
“He’s got a pretty fearless intent, which is great to see. And we’ve tried really hard over the last couple of years to try and let that be the identity of our team. You know, you’re not going to win every game. We know how good this competition is, and you’re going to come up against good sides,” Bobat further said.
“But if we play true to our identity and we play true to the way, you know, the way we’ve tried to play over the last couple of years, and we can do that under pressure, then I think that’s the thing that we will be proud of. So we’re just trying to do that game by game. And that’s with the bat and ball. You know, we want to score runs aggressively and we want to take wickets, particularly early in the innings,” he again shared.
“So yeah, the boys deserve the credit for that. They’re the ones who are developing this sense of identity. You know, we’ve recruited them because we believed we could do this, and they’re going out and they’re proving it. So they deserve the credit for that,” he concluded.
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