Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has added that the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) captain Rajat Patidar missed a trick in their IPL 2025 match against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). He also questioned the newly appointed captain’s bowling changes in the powerplay overs as well.
While talking about KKR’s innings in a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “RCB started very well and then suddenly they started getting hit and it continued. We had discussed yesterday morning as well as to how Rajat Patidar would captain. I thought he missed a trick there. Three good overs had been bowled and he brought Rasikh Salam for the fourth over. I thought Yash Dayal could have been given one more over. He brought Krunal Pandya to bowl the fifth over, and I am thinking – ‘Don’t do that, what are you doing, my brother?’ Ajinkya Rahane started hitting there and then kept hitting.”
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“100 runs were scored in the first 10 overs. 200 should have been scored from there. Rahane was absolutely outstanding. Scoring runs was important from Rahane’s point of view because once you do that, you start commanding respect. You are not a novice but you have come into a new camp,” Chopra again shared.
However, Aakash Chopra also applauded the RCB spinners for helping them bounce back in their IPL 2025 match against KKR as well.
“Things changed after that and there it seemed the match would go in some other direction because Krunal Pandya picked up three wickets. We have been asking whether RCB’s spin bowling is their weakest link. However, if your weakest link becomes your strongest link, you say they did a great job. The two spinners together pick up four wickets. Krunal Pandya picked up three wickets despite his first over being expensive. He was good. He was bowling within the stumps, and it seemed like the ball was getting stuck a little. I still feel Suyash was very expensive and bowling a lot of loose deliveries but he got the dangerous Andre Russell out,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
