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‘Rahane missed the trick. What was he ready for?’ Patidar supremacy in ‘Kohli, Dhoni’ context laid naked vs ‘tepid’ KKR
In a battle between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Kolkata Knight Riders, who have been led by new captains, on Saturday within the IPL 2025 opener on the iconic Eden Gardens, Rajat Patidar’s males emerged as winners, handing the defending champions a seven-wicket loss at residence. Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra credited Patidar for the win and in addition outlined his supremacy, which was in contrast with IPL greats MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.
Talking on his YouTube channel on Sunday, Aakash admitted he was unsuitable about Patidar, who was handed the duty to steer RCB in IPL 2025 final month. Whereas he had his apprehensions in regards to the new skipper within the match towards Kolkata, led by Rahane, a veteran and a former India captain, which he reckoned have been true within the opening 10 overs of the sport, a shocking comeback from RCB within the the rest of the match noticed Aakash change his opinion. The previous KKR batter was additionally in reward of Participant of the Match Krunal Pandya for his economical present within the center overs.
“I used to be questioning how would Rajat Patidar fare as a captain. I truthfully felt he missed a trick. The primary three overs have been good. Within the fourth over, he introduced Salam, after which had Krunal within the fifth. I used to be pondering, ‘Do not do this.’ Rahane capitalised and saved scoring runs, they usually reached 100 in 10 overs. KKR ought to have scored 200, however that’s the place the comeback started. Thumbs down for Patidar’s captaincy within the first 10 overs, however then it seemed just like the match may head the opposite manner. I imply, Krunal took three wickets. We saved saying, RCB’s weakest hyperlink was their spinners. However that grew to become their energy. Krunal was good regardless of an costly first over. Suyash was delivering very unfastened balls, however he dismissed Russell. KKR ultimately didn’t even rating 175. They are going to be dissatisfied,” he mentioned.
‘Rahane missed the trick’
Aakash additional mentioned that Rahane had a disappointing outing as a captain in his first sport for KKR. Though he scored a fiery half-century, which helped Kolkata bounce again after the early dismissal of Quinton de Kock, Rahane failed to make use of his playing cards proper as a captain when defending the whole of 173. Aakash was notably important of Rahane getting Sunil Narine late into the assault, which allowed the likes of Virat Kohli and Phil Salt settle in.
“What I felt about Patidar, grew to become true for Rahane. Why weren’t you bringing Narine? What have been you ready for? They saved scoring runs and KKR delayed Narine’s introduction. Rahane missed the trick there. Thumbs down for KKR. Thumbs up for RCB,” he mentioned.
The veteran India cricketer additionally praised Patidar’s “supremacy” towards Narine. He scored 9 runs in 5 balls towards the spinner, which included a six. General, Patidar scored three sixes towards Narine of their face-off within the IPL. Aakash reminded followers that in 13 years of their IPL rivalry towards Narine, Rohit, Kohli and Dhoni collectively scored simply 4 sixes towards the spinner.
“Patidar seemed stunning. He performed simply 14 balls off Narine and smashed him for 3 sixes. To place that into context, Rohit, Kohli and Dhoni have performed towards Narine for 13 years and managed simply 4 sixes collectively. So Patidar’s supremacy towards Narine got here to the fore. General, a tepid begin for Kolkata,” he mentioned.
