A one-run loss regardless of some particular performances compounded by the rub of the inexperienced not going their approach in lots of shut matches meant that Royal Challengers Bengaluru had a extremely bumpy begin to this season. However, it’s the group spirit and tradition of being there for one another in failure and in success has led the group to stage a exceptional comeback because the Faf du Plessis-led outfit registered their fifth consecutive victory on Sunday to remain within the hunt for a spot within the play-offs.
Rajat Patidar, who performed a exceptional innings within the final match to assist the group register one other victory, additionally make clear the optimistic group tradition that conjures up gamers to do their finest on the sphere.
“The positive team culture plays a huge role in the team as when you have a good culture and support from management, it makes player comfortable and allows you to do your best on the field. It increases the success of the team as well. In tough times it’s important to back each other and also have support from management. So, I believe that is there especially the franchise show a lot of support and back every player,” said Patidar.
The franchise backed by the assist of the most important fan base- the ‘twelfth Man Army” has attracted among the largest names in world cricket because the inception of the league due to bonhomie among the many gamers, followers and the religion of the group administration.
These legends of the sport at the moment are a part of the corridor of fame and nonetheless as passionate as they have been once they represented the Bengaluru group and nonetheless love coming again and rooting for RCB. With a number of IPL data to his identify, Virat Kohli has been on the RCB dressing room for the final 17 years and continues to carry the Orange cap as the best run scorer this season too.
He believes it’s the group’s #playbold tradition that not solely binds the group with the followers on the sphere but in addition resonates with the assumption of the group administration that makes nearly each participant within the group give that additional little bit of motivation.
“What we ended up reaching as a group, as a cultural change, is all the time going to be a matter of pleasure for me as a result of a event occurs for a sure time frame. But a tradition occurs over a protracted time frame.
And for that, you want consistency: you want extra character than simply successful,” Virat Kohli had stated, whereas explaining what has held him again from leaving RCB throughout one in all his earlier interplay on the RCB podcast.
That character has been seen not solely in the way in which the group has made a number of comebacks or confronted robust defeats but in addition in how the younger and gifted cricketers are groomed within the RCB dressing rooms by the champions of the sport or how the group has responded when the chips have been utterly down.
“Pressure is always there. Performances are a part of the game that we play. Pressure is there when you are winning as well. You need to perform as well in the game. But I think for me the nice thing at least from the captaincy point of view is that I feel like we’re playing the style of cricket that we have been wanting to play for so long. It’s more a happiness that we are doing ourselves justice whereas, before, the opposite was happening,” stated RCB Skipper Faf du Plessis.
He added, “We are also getting excellent support from our fans- RCB 12th Man Army. It feels like that every game is a home game for us.”
The males’s group had additionally celebrated the WPL triumph of the ladies’s group with a novel guard of honour for the champions – exhibiting that everybody deserves recognition for his or her exhausting work no matter win or loss.