SRH vs RCB | Player Ratings - Virat Kohli and AB de Villers falter as Sunrisers Hyderabad rout Royal Challengers Bangalore
It was one of those days for Royal Challengers Bangalore where nothing really worked and once Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers were out, an RCB win was beyond the realms of expectations. The bowling department wore a torrid look today and was no where close to stopping the Sunrisers opening duo.
Parthiv Patel (2/10): For every miss behind the stumps, there is hope that Parthiv will do something with the bat. That comes once in a blue moon, but on other days, Patel gives early jitters to the entire batting line-up to follow. It was a simple gift to Manish Pandey which aptly summarized RCB’s batting.
Shimron Hetmyer (2/10): It was a brave decision to send the West Indian up top to give the team a fast start, but he ended up being a victim of a Mohammed Nabi-Jonny Bairstow tag-team effort. While his game against spin has been discussed quite often, he fell prey to a brilliant set-up by the Afghan spinner, who shortened his length to lure Hetmyer hit on the up. Failed and was sent back.
Virat Kohli (1.5/10): Let’s discuss Virat Kohli’s captaincy first - it was not close to what the IPL standard seems to be. When Ray Barman was going for runs, he should’ve asked Colin de Grandhomme to bowl another over, at least considering the amount of experience he has. That aside, when the team needed him to do well with the bat, he faltered in that count too, being one of RCB’s major villains of the night.
AB de Villiers (1/10): Not something that one would have expected from a genius batsman like ABD. Nabi imparted a lot of flight on that wicket delivery, but without understanding the drift, the South African played it with the turn and let the ball clatter into the stumps. This dismissal ended RCB’s hope of winning the game, and with that, it also put up a severe doubt on the franchise’s mentality of winning the league, ever.
Moeen Ali (3/10): It was a batting paradise, but he looked under-confident in his brief stay on the wicket. He was drafted into the side as a pure hitter in the powerplay, but if he doesn’t work towards that, or at least, make an effort to live up to that expectation, then RCB probably
Colin de Grandhomme (4/10): Tim Southee should go and ask the team management why he is on the bench, and the all-rounder was picked ahead of him. If the team management doesn’t answer that, he can go on for a hunger strike. After all, Grandhomme bowled only one over in the entire game and was batting just to drag the game on.
Shivam Dube (3/10): After Shivam Dube showed glimpses of his talent against Mumbai Indians the other night, RCB would have hoped that Dube could give them a chance to salvage some pride, but the Mumbaikar was immature in the way he handled a Mohammed Nabi delivery - miscued an outside off-stump ball to long-on - to bring an end to his innings. The team would expect better from him.
Prayas Barman (2/10): Virat Kohli was all praise for the youngest debutant in the IPL at the toss, but the performance was nowhere close to what the team would have expected from him. Apart from the normal leg-spinner, nothing was coming out of his hand and it may turn disastrous if he doesn’t reinvent himself. He tried to stage a batting comeback for the team, but that was too little, too late.
Yuzvendra Chahal (3/10): A bowling line-up made up of tissue and straw paper, Chahal was supposed to be the main man for the visitors, but geez, the Jonny-Davy combo was having a ball out there in the middle. It was a disastrous performance by Chahal and even though he dismissed Jonny Bairstow in his last over, the game had already slipped from their fingers.Â
Umesh Yadav (1/10): You are bowling the 19th over because your captain trusts you, but then you kept on unleashing those full-tosses to a well-set batsman. It doesn’t take much to understand that Umesh Yadav had used hardly any part of his brain today and clearly proved why he gradually moved down the pecking order in India’s limited-overs plans.
Mohammed Siraj (2.5/10): He might have been the only RCB bowler to have bowled full four overs and still ended up having an economy rate of under 10, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that he hasn’t learned anything new about white-ball bowling all these years. Kept on landing full balls for Warner and Bairstow, and was unaware of how the left-right combination works, and this reduced him to a mere puppet. Was worse than what the stats page suggests.