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RCB’s sensational run in the Indian Premier League has made them fan favourites in the Indian Premier League 2024. RCB, who had a terrible start to the tournament after losing the first 7 out of their 8 matches, scripted an incredible turnaround in the second half of the season. RCB won six matches in a row, and qualified for the playoffs in the final spot. RCB’s brilliant run has made them the fan favourites in the IPL 2024, so much so that fans chanted the name of the team during the Qualifier 1 of the tournament
While the top two teams in the group stage, KKR and SRH were playing each other in the first match of the playoffs stage, a section of the crowd at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad chanted the name of the Bengaluru-based franchise.
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RCB will be facing RR in the Eliminator of the tournament in the same venue, and would hope to beat the Sanju Samson side, who have not won a single game in their last five matches.
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RCB’s Incredible Turnaround
In an exclusive interaction with Indiatoday.in RCB’s Swapnil Singh detailed how Bengaluru managed to flip the switch and regain momentum after a miserable first half of the season.
Swapnil revealed to IndiaToday.in that following the loss against RR in Jaipur, the team management convened a meeting with the players. During this sit-down session, the coaches held up a mirror to the team, prompting them to reflect on what had gone wrong and identify areas for improvement.
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Swapnil highlighted that one of the factors behind the turnaround was a pivotal meeting between the spinners and team management just before the KKR match, where the spinners demanded more game time and argued that they had not been used well in the tournament.
“Before the KKR match, the spinners had a meeting with the head coach and the director of cricket. We told them as a spinning group that in the first half of the tournament, we did not use our spinners and in India, doing that is a crime. Thankfully, they accepted that mistake, without any ego at all. That is something difficult to do. They listened to us. After we lost to KKR and after that we have played a minimum of two spinners, and that is where the momentum shifted for us,” Swapnil Singh said.
After the KKR match, RCB spinners have seen much more game time (representation) on the field. The Royal Challengers have at least played 2 spinners in every game, where the department has been represented much better than in the first half.
In the first 8 matches of the tournament, on average, RCB spinners bowled a little over 4 overs per game. However in the next three matches, after the spinners’ meeting, the slow bowlers bowled 25 overs in total, averaging almost 9 overs per game.
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