Assistant RCB Coach Malalan Rangarajan said that while the team is satisfied with the return of Josh Hazlewood, he believes that the platoon has enough talents this time. Hazlewood missed the last two RCB games as he treated the shoulder problem and returned late from Australia.
Pacer arrived just before Play -off for Bengalur They focus on their first title in IPL. When Rangarajan spoke at a press conference before the LSG game, he said he had approached the team during the Hazlewood absence of Lungi Ngidi and Nuwan Thushar waited in the wings. The RCB assistant also said he had a good Indian stimulator in the form of Rasikh Salam.
“There is no doubt how good Josh Hazlewood as a player and what big impact he had, but it is also important to remember in his absence, played 2 games, we won 1 and we lost another, Plingi Ngidi we fulfilled very well and we believe we were very well, and we believed we appreciated. We appreciated, and we thought we were in the passage of, that we believed that we believed that we believed that we appreciated the quality of Hazlewood, we and everyone we have to remember the quality of our game team.
Hazlewood has 18 goals for RCB this season in 10 games.
“Won’t dwell on the past game”
The last RCB game in Lucknow saw them collapsed from 173 in 4 to 189 versatile and chased 230 against SRH. Rangarajan said they had honest interviews and would not have the result. Assistant RCB Assistant Coach said hopefully they were dealing with problems before the LSG game.
“After every game, we sit down, we have our sincere conversations, constructive feedback. What we have to understand and where Phil Salt comes from is when you host 230, everything you can ask from the toss unit is that it happened, that we have happened.
“As for what came out of the meeting, hopefully you will see it on Earth tomorrow. As if we had some challenges at the M Chinnaswama stadium when we played the first few games. I think we were thinking about how we could go wrong,” Rangarajan said.
RCB will face LSG 27. May and victory will help them achieve the first two.
Published on:
26. May 2025
