Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s memorable IPL 2024 campaign ended with an enormous defeat towards Rajasthan Royals on Wednesday, May 22. RCB followers witnessed an eventful season after making the playoffs towards all odds however suffered a sad end within the Eliminator conflict in Ahmedabad.
Emotions have been excessive at RCB camp when Rajasthan pulled off a simple four-wicket win at Narendra Modi Stadium. The focus was on Virat Kohli and Dinesh Karthik with the latter saying goodbye to skilled cricket after stellar efficiency in 2024.
After the defeat, Skipper Faf du Plessis identified RCB’s unbelievable comeback within the second half of the season however appeared devastated after failing to end the group’s title drought in his third season at M Chinnaswamy. The franchise shared an emotional video highlighting the dressing room scenes after the end of the campaign the place head coach Andy Flower and Director of Cricket Mo Bobat addressed the camp one final time.
Andy Flower wished everybody good luck for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024 and identified Virat and Faf’s main the group by instance all through the event. Faf additionally thanked his teammates for an excellent campaign and assist in his three years on the franchise.
“A not so fitting goodbye,” RCB mentioned in X submit. “The 23 players and the coaching staff got tougher for one last time in the dressing room, to thank each other for the brilliant effort and wish their teammates the best of times ahead.”
Meanwhile, regardless of a not-so-memorable end to their campaign, RCB followers are already evaluating the 2024 season to their 2016 campaign the place they completed runner-ups. Bengaluru secured the playoff berth ninth time however a defeat in Eliminator proved their report tenth loss in 16 playoff matches.
Virat Kohli completed the season as a number one run-getter within the event with 741 runs in 15 innings at an incredible strike fee of 154.69. In bowling, Mohammed Siraj and Yash Dayal picked 15 wickets every however the likes of Alzarri Joseph and Lockie Ferguson struggled to impress.Â
