Suresh Raina SLAMS Faf du Plessis For Taking Jibe on Mayank Dagar, Reckons Rohit Sharma Wouldn’t Have Done it
Pointing a match against Rajasthan Royals where the RCB captain said that Mayank Dagar was the cause for the loss, Raina reckoned Rohit Sharma would not have spoken like that about his player.
Jaipur: Things have not gone according to plan for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru side, who slumped to their seventh loss of the season on Sunday. The Kolkata Knight Riders beat the RCB side by a run. While things went from bad to worse for the RCB side, former India cricketer Suresh Raina has slammed Faf du Plessis for his leadership. Pointing a match against Rajasthan Royals where the RCB captain said that Mayank Dagar was the cause for the loss, Raina reckoned Rohit Sharma would not have spoken like that about his player.
“If you speak something like this about a junior in front of the press, it’s not right. The captain himself hasn’t been scoring runs. I’ve played with Faf for many years, and he’s a dear friend, but he should support the youngsters. You’d never see Rohit Sharma say something like this,” the former CSK star told Lallantop.
Du Plessis had earlier said, “The pitch definitely got better; you could feel it; the ball was skidding along nicely. We were excellent in the first four overs. I think that 20 runs over (from Mayank Dagar) took the momentum away and shifted the pressure back on us.”
RCB need a miracle to get through from here to make the playoff.
Earlier on Sunday, brilliant half-centuries by Will Jacks and Rajat Patidar were not enough for Royal Challengers Bengaluru as they succumbed to an agonizing one-run defeat to Knight Riders. Jacks (55, 32b, 4×5, 5×6) and Patidar (52, 23b, 3×4, 5×6) kept RCB in hunt for but they could not chase down a daunting 223 target set by the KKR. RCB ended up at 221 all out despite a last over blitz by Karn Sharma (20, 7b, 3×6). Andre Russell grabbed three wickets (3/25) while Sunil Narine and Harshit Rana grabbed two wickets apiece for the home side.