Ambati Rayudu: After Royal Challengers Bangalore's defeat to Rajasthan Royals in the eliminator match, former CSK player Ambati Rayudu has given a big statement.
Rayudu, who retired from IPL last year, said that the IPL trophy cannot be won only by passion and celebration. In the eliminator match of IPL 2024, on May 22, Rajasthan Royals defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 4 wickets.
Rayudu said, 'If you talk about RCB today, it shows that passion and celebration alone cannot get you the trophy.' You have to make a plan. Just reaching the playoffs does not get you the IPL trophy. You have to play with that passion.' Don't think that you will win the IPL trophy just by defeating CSK. You have to come again next year.
Rayudu also said that the RCB franchise needs to show more trust in Indian players. I don't think any Indian batsman except Virat Kohli has scored more than 1000 runs in the last 16 years. Virat Kohli has more than 8000 runs in IPL. Rayudu said that he feels that RCB does not trust Indian talent.
Rayudu was very upset with RCB's aggressive celebrations and ignoring CSK players during Dhoni's last match.
Irfan Pathan also continued talking about Ambati Rayudu and said that you have to convince Swapnil Singh and Karn Sharma. You brought Alzari Joseph but his statistics are very poor.