After bottling a 3rd successive chase within the IPL 2025 season, the Rajasthan Royals are staring on the exit door earlier than anticipated this time. Taking the sphere with out skipper Sanju Samson, Rajasthan succumbed to an 11-run defeat to the Royal Challengers Bengaluru on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, extending their shedding streak to 5 matches, their longest in 15 years.
It was additionally the Royals’ seventh defeat in 9 matches, leaving them on the eighth spot within the standings. Nevertheless, India batting legend Sunil Gavaskar couldn’t maintain again on Rajasthan’s lack of utility below head coach Rahul Dravid.
‘The place is the thought course of?’
“I’m truly speaking concerning the earlier matches the place I wasn’t on the floor. I simply noticed them. So, you’re not all the time in a position to get the sensation of what’s actually taking place. However right here, I used to be on the floor, and you possibly can truly see the form of cricket that was being performed. And with somebody like Rahul Dravid because the coach, it was fairly baffling—it was unthinking cricket,” Gavaskar stated on Star Sports activities.
“Dravid was all the time so exact in his considering, and I might’ve thought that form of method would’ve seeped into a number of the Rajasthan batters,” Gavaskar remarked.
Gavaskar lamented Rajasthan’s construction as a serious flaw within the workforce’s method this season, banking on children to do the heavy lifting.
“The place is the thought course of there? You may’t anticipate inexperienced gamers to all the time get it proper, however nonetheless… it’s only a totally different form of cricket,” Gavaskar stated.