Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will be locking horns with the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the Indian Premier League 2020 Eliminator on Thursday and skipper Virat Kohli has assured his teammates that they will ve having much more fun in the coming week than they had in the entire tournament.
Thrashing Mumbai Indians by a huge margin of 10 wickets on Tuesday, SRH managed to seal their sqport in the playoffs as the side finished third in the points table with 14 points. RCB finished at the 4th place with as many points as the Sunrisers. RCB had lost four games on the trot and skipper Kohli feels that the team needs to go in the upcoming games with a positive mindset.
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In a video tweeted by the franchise, skipper Kohli was heard saying, “I want all of us to be in a positive mindset. I promise you we will have more fun in this next week than we had in two and a half months.”
RCB head coach Simon Katich praised the players for executing teh plans well in the match against Delhi Capitals on Monday.
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Katich elaborated, “Well done on a fantastic achievement of reaching the playoffs. It obviously requires a lot of hard work, so well done on that. The finish hasn’t been as planned but what is done is done.”
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He also added, “We can now look for the opportunity which comes up on Friday and grab that opportunity. The things that stand (out) for me is that certain guys played according to their role in our last game. One obviously (is) Shahbaz (Ahmed) – he picked his first wicket in IPL.”