Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) Director of Cricket Mike Hesson has stated that the crew’s coaching camp will begin on March 29 for the upcoming version of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The RCB on Wednesday shared a video on Twitter wherein Hesson revealed the date on which the camp will start.
RCB’s IPL 2021 Camp and Player Availability
When’s the pre-season camp beginning? When are the abroad gamers arriving? On @myntra presents Bold Diaries, Mike Hesson leaves no room for speculations forward of #VivoIPL2021.#PlayBold #WeAreChallengers #IPL2021 #Classof2021 pic.twitter.com/yxBFNYVwW8
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) March 24, 2021
The IPL Governing Council, earlier this month, introduced the schedule for the league, to be held in India throughout six venues from April 9. Defending champions Mumbai Indians will take on RCB in Chennai within the event opener.
Hesson additionally stated that AB de Villiers will arrive on March 28. “We have got players arriving all the way through till April 1. Finn Allen will be playing in T20I in New Zealand on April 1 and then he will come the day after… ABD arrives on 28,” he stated.
“It is very different than the last year where we had everybody together for a long period of time on the back of a period where the guys had not trained or played. So, this time it is different, we got players playing international cricket over here and overseas and domestic cricket up until a hand full of days ago. So, we had to prepare in slightly different ways,” former New Zealand head coach Hesson added.
The last of the 14th version of the event can be performed on May 30 on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The IPL playoffs can even be performed on the similar venue.
One of the highlights of this version of the IPL can be the truth that all matches can be performed at impartial venues, no crew will play at their house venue. All groups will play at 4 out of 6 venues throughout the league stage.
On Saturday, India defeated England within the fifth T20I, and in consequence, the hosts gained the collection 3-2. In the match, India and RCB skipper Virat Kohli had opened the innings and scored an unbeaten 80.
(with ANI inputs)
After the match, Kohli had stated: “I am going to open in the IPL to keep all options open. I have batted at three, four and now I need to understand my role as an opener which I have done successfully in the past in T20 cricket so that I provide an option to open up a slot for someone like Surya, if he can continue to bat like that, I should be open to playing any kind of role that the team requires me to. We will have a conversation about this when we get closer to the T20 World Cup. It would be interesting to see how I go about my job as an opener in the IPL.”
