Captain Faf du Plessis admitted that the drop catch of Odean Smith led to Royal Challengers Bangalore’s 5-wicket defeat to Punjab Kings on Sunday at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai. RCB posted a frightening whole of 205/2 however a quickfire cameo from Smith helped Punjab Kings to start out the IPL 2022 marketing campaign with a five-wicket win with an over to spare.
Smith remained unbeaten on 25 runs off simply 8 balls as his innings was laced with 3 sixes and a 4. However, the Windies power-hitter was dropped by younger RCB opener Anuj Rawat at deep cowl within the seventeenth over when Smith was simply at 1.
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After shedding his first sport as RCB captain, Du Plessis mirrored on the drop catch of Smith as he feels that the Punjab Kings batter is one such batter who can take the sport away from the opposition
“The catches in the direction of the top.. Odean Smith 25 off 8 balls.. I believe we in all probability dropped him on 10. After that, we’re taking a look at some tailenders coming in. The cliche of catches win Matches,” the RCB captain said at the post-match presentation.
He further talked about the conditions as he said that the bowlers decently with the wet ball but in the end, Smith snatched away the win from them.
“There was a bit of dew out there, tough night for the bowlers, but I thought they were pretty decent with the wet ball. Small margins, but they chased it down really well. They had a really good powerplay. The ball skidded on a bit more in the second innings and then we pulled it back beautifully. We did a lot of good things in the middle. But you know what Odean Smith can do to you. So you got to hold on to those chances. Even the other guy, Shahrukh Khan, didn’t really nail it tonight until the last couple of balls. So completely different game if you hold on to those chances, ” Du Plessis added.
Earlier, Du Plessis smashed 88 runs on his debut for RCB with the added accountability of captaincy. The Proteas batter paced his innings fairly nicely on his debut at RCB after spending years with Chennai Super Kings.
It was a whole captain’s knock the place the Proteas batter began the innings on a sluggish notice however accelerated on the proper second to blow away Punjab Kings’ bowlers together with his magnificent power-hitting. At one stage, he was at 17 off 30 balls however he managed to finish up with 88 runs off 57 balls. His innings was laced with 7 sixes and three fours.
“I’m simply glad I obtained away with out injuring myself as a result of I spent a lot time on my elbows diving. It was robust to start out with the bat immediately. The first 4 overs the ball was swinging, I used to be 1 off 10 I assume. Clutching the bat a bit onerous however pleasing to get by means of it,” the RCB captain talked about his own batting performance.
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