Rajasthan Royals lost two games back-to-back twice within three days. While they lost to Delhi Capitals in the Super Over, they lost to LSG by only 2 runs. However, Sairaj Bahutule, the spin bowling coach of the Rajasthan Royals, is not worried about that. He also praised LSG pacer Avesh Khan, who delivered the final over under pressure to defend nine runs as well.

“To be honest, we’ve been playing good cricket, Bahutule claimed following Royals’ loss against LSG, in Jaipur, on Saturday. “It’s just that the result has not gone away. In the dugout, there’s a lot of calmness with Rahul (Dravid) being there. Everybody has played enough cricket in that dugout to know that one should not panic and take it as it comes. But unfortunately, losing by two runs this game and the previous game with the super over, yes, it’s been hard, but that’s the way the game goes.”

“T20 is a format where a lot of risk is involved. You make a lot of mistakes and our effort is to minimise those mistakes. I think when we had a partnership going, we could have finished it a couple of overs itself. But Avesh bowled that good over again. So, yeah, we could have finished it. But again, we are absolutely calm, composed about it and we just look forward for the next game,” he again shared.

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However, Sairaj Bahutule also backed pacer Sandeep Sharma, who was smashed for four sixes by Abdul Samad in the last over of LSG’s innings as well, in which Sandeep gave away 27 runs. However, Bahutule doesn’t want to blame individual moments and performers as well.

“That doesn’t mean I can take anything away from him because he’s a fabulous bowler. He’s always bowled those important and tough overs. Definitely, we would’ve had 20 runs less, maybe 10-15 runs lesser to chase. But (still) I think we were set to chase that target. Don’t think any team wins or loses because of a player. I’ll be honest with you, it is a team game. In the previous match too, he gave two overs with very less runs – 5 and 7 runs. So generally, we forget those important overs and we keep emphasising on overs which he has not bowled well. But I think for us, he is a 100% giver. And the team backs him, everybody backs him,” he added.

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“It’s not easy to go there and perform day in and day out with the same intensity. But I just feel, I think we are a unit. Things are not going our way, the results are not going our way. But I feel it’s a young side and I’m sure everybody is hurting and they will learn from their mistakes. You were in a commanding position in both the matches, still you were on the losing side,” he shared.

“The clarity with us, with the support staff and the players and in the dressing room is absolutely the best I’ve seen. Rahul is very clear about whatever the plans are, the game plans are. It’s just that on that particular day, the execution from players didn’t happen and it was just in that last over, things didn’t go our way. Most of the time, we were in the game and we were playing good cricket. So, I just feel that we just didn’t get over that finishing line. I think they will assess the situation and will let us know,” Sairaj Bahutule concluded.