Krunal Pandya spills beans about dialog with brother Hardik after RCB’s maiden IPL triumph

Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Krunal Pandya being introduced an award in the course of the presentation ceremony of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, on the Narendra Modi Stadium, in Ahmedabad, Tuesday, June 3, 2025.
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Krunal Pandya, who was named Participant of the Match within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 18th version remaining in opposition to Punjab Kings, revealed that he referred to as his brother Hardik after the sport and cited that the Pandya family has 9 IPL trophies in 11 years.

Krunal, who Bengaluru acquired for ₹5.75 crore, unleashed each weapon from his fully-loaded arsenal within the high-stakes remaining and left the spectators spellbound and returning with figures of two/17 in his four-over spell. He single-handedly broke the spine of Punjab’s try to search out the 191-run goal and steered Bengaluru to a six-run triumph and RCB’s first IPL trophy victory.

Whereas receiving the Participant of the Match award, Krunal spilt the beans concerning the conversations he had together with his brother Hardik and reminded him concerning the variety of IPL titles they’ve had within the final decade.

“After I joined RCB, I mentioned that I beloved successful trophies. After three and a half months, glad I used to be in a position to fulfil what I mentioned on Day 1. Been fairly good – 10 years, 4 IPL trophies. I additionally informed Hardik on the telephone that there will likely be 9 IPL trophies within the Pandya family in 11 years,” Krunal mentioned within the post-match presentation.

In his memorable outing, Krunal returned with the priceless scalps of Prabhsimran Singh (26) and Josh Inglis (39) to derail Punjab’s makes an attempt to chase the goal. The trick behind Krunal’s success was deceiving the batters by various his tempo and having the “guts” to execute it as a result of it leaves the bowler with no margin of error.

“After we batted within the first innings, I used to be sitting outdoors and chatting with the batters. I realised the slower you bowl, the higher. However on this format, as a bowler, you want guts to try this as a result of the margin of error is small,” he mentioned.

“I simply backed myself and thought that if I will differ my tempo and maintain it extra on the slower facet, I am going to create possibilities moderately than simply coming and firing it in. What has been my largest energy is studying what the state of affairs requires. I’ve at all times backed my intestine and intuition,” he added with 25 scalps in 15 matches at a mean of 19.52, finest figures of 4/41.