‘Your big-name players…supposed to take pressure are all in the dressing room’: Ambati Rayudu lashes RCB stars and predicts ‘they will never win’

On Tuesday chasing 182 runs things were looking grim for Royal Challengers Bengaluru against Kolkata Knight Riders until Mahipal Lamror played a blistering cameo of 33 from just 13 balls pulling back the hosts into the game after a top-order collapse. However, his heroics were not enough for them to get over the line as he lacked support from the other end.

Chasing a big total Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, and Cameron Green all fell cheaply putting the onus on inexperienced Anuj Rawat, Lamror, and others to deliver a match-winning performance. “Look at them who bats in the pressure situations for them? Young Indian batters and Dinesh Karthik,” 6-time IPL winner Ambati Rayudu would critique RCB speaking on Star Sports.

Rawat though delivered a sparkling cameo on the opening night against Chennai Super Kings and has given assurances that he can handle pressure at this level on Tuesday he struggled to deal with the pace of Mayank Yadav eventually ending up playing a knock of 21-ball 11 which spiked up the run rate sky high. “Your big-name players who are international players who are supposed to take pressure where are they? Are all in the dressing room. This has been happening for over 16 years for this team.” Rayudu would analyze.

The 38-year-old would even go on to say, “This has been their story. When there is pressure we cannot find any big-name players all young players are coming down the order. Your big-name players go to the top of the order and eat the cream. A team like this will never win. This is the reason why they have not won IPL thus far.”

Poor home record

Ahead of the season, RCB’s win percentage at Chinnaswamy Stadium reads 46.51. To put it in perspective, Chennai has a win percentage of 70.96 at Chepauk, Mumbai 62.33 at Wankhede, Sunrisers Hyderabad 62% at Uppal, and Kolkata Knight Riders 57.31 at Eden Gardens. And they have had another poor start to the campaign this year, winning only one home game out of three and already lingering at the bottom of the table.

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