RCB head coach Andy Flower looks to rope in ‘highly skillful and intelligent’ bowlers for M Chinnaswamy

Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s (RCB’s) head coach Andy Flower has talked about that his facet wants extra “skilful and intelligent” bowlers whereas working on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Flower opined that “pace is not going to be the answer” on the high-scoring venue and RCB require “bowlers that can bowl to really specific plans at Chinnaswamy”.

“As far as recruitment for next year, it’s a bit early to talk about that. Quite frankly, I don’t want to talk about that yet. I do think though the Chinnaswamy has some particular qualities that we need to be able to exploit,” stated Flower through the post-match presentation after the loss to Rajasthan Royals in the Eliminator. 

“You certainly need highly skilful bowlers at Chinnaswamy. Simply pace is not going to be the answer there. You need skilful, intelligent bowlers and people that can bowl to really specific plans at Chinnaswamy.”

IPL 2024 has witnessed many batting data getting diminished to mud and batters dominate the bowlers like no different season. Taking that into consideration, Flower talked about that there’s a want to recruit batters who can bat at a excessive tempo all through the innings.

“And I think we’ve all seen how the power game has affected T20 cricket recently. So on the batting front, you certainly need to recruit batsmen with that sort of power that can keep up that sort of tempo.”

RCB’s IPL 2024 marketing campaign got here to a halt after they suffered a four-wicket loss by the hands of Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the Eliminator on Wednesday (May 22). But the Faf du Plessis-led facet scripted a dramatic turnaround in fortunes to win six video games in a row and safe a last-minute berth in the playoffs. 

Their head coach lauded their fightback and lavished reward on Faf and Virat Kohli for main by instance on the sector.

“I think our guys have fought brilliantly over the last 10 weeks to come back from our first half of the tournament was a great effort and I certainly would pay tribute to Faf du Plessis for his captaincy and Faf and Virat for the way they’ve led from the front as role models and professional sports people. But also the way they’ve played. They both really been great role models for everyone else and the rest of the boys fought really hard to get us back into the tournament,” talked about Flower.