NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru captain Faf du Plessis expressed relief after his team ended a six-game losing streak with a 35-run victory against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL on Thursday.
“Last two games, we’ve shown great signs of fight. SRH game was 270 plus, we got 260. KKR game as well – 1 run. We’ve been close for a while, but you need to win matches to get confidence as a group.Will sleep easier tonight.
“Last two games, we’ve shown great signs of fight. SRH game was 270 plus, we got 260. KKR game as well – 1 run. We’ve been close for a while, but you need to win matches to get confidence as a group.Will sleep easier tonight.
“You can’t speak confidence into the group, can’t fake confidence into the group. Only thing that gives confidence is performances,” he said at the post match presentation ceremony.
While Virat Kohli has been the top-scorer for them, Du Plessis is happy that other batters are too getting back amongst runs.
“The competition is so strong, the teams are so strong that you’ll get hurt if you’re not at 100 percent. More guys are scoring runs now. First half of the tournament only Virat was scoring runs. Greeny scoring runs now will be massive for him.”
Chasing 207, SRH’s ultra aggressive approach with the bat backfired as they were 69-5 in 8th over and couldn’t recover thereafter.
