After Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) lost to Punjab Kings (PBKS) by 34 runs, former India cricketer Virender Sehwag has opined what should be their ideal batting line up. Notably, their entire batting order came under the scanner as their middle-order failed miserably, including Glenn Maxwell and AB de Villiers. Although Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar scored 30 odds, they failed to score quickly too.
After this, Sehwag said that Kohli should bat at number three.
While talking to Cricbuzz, Sehwag shared: “I think Virat should come back to his original position of number three, and consider Mohammad Azharuddin for the opening role. He looks like a better option than Patidar right now. Kohli should be no.3, with Maxwell and ABD to follow. That would mean that you have three world-class players in the middle-order. If Devdutt Padikkal and Azharuddin don’t do the job at the top, then these three are capable enough to bail the side out of trouble.”
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On the other hand, Mike Hesson of RCB has backed his team despite having a poor show with the bat. The former New Zealand coach has also said that their batsmen failed to do well bacause of the slowness of the pitch.
“It was getting difficult to force the ball. I think you could stand and force the ball once but when you were trying to hit, it was getting very hard. We weren’t getting any timing on it. The harder we tried to hit, the worse it got. We needed to get one into the stands but it was very difficult,” he further added.
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Howveer, after the loss, RCB captain Virat Kohli said: “They got off to a good start but we pulled things back somewhat after five down. Should have been chasing 160, when they were 116/5, but we gave away 25-odd runs in the end. Focused too much on what the batters were doing. We got away from our plans. We gave too many bad balls for boundaries. As batsmen we could have tried different things early on. It was tough to hit through the line. It was all about trying to get a partnership and have a strike rate of more than 110. We were not able to do that as a batting unit. Just a few little tweaks we need to address going forward. There are areas we need to improve.”
