Rahul Dravid Voices Concern Over RR’s Underwhelming Performance: ‘It’s been a tough one’

RR head coach Rahul Dravid expressed his frustration with the team’s average performance this season. He mentioned all the areas Rajasthan Royals have struggled with in the 2025 IPL season.

Rajasthan Royals suffered their eighth defeat of this season on Sunday against Punjab Kings. They were unable to chase down a total of 219 and lost by not much, but just by 10 runs.

RR’s Struggles with Huge Targets

Despite their struggle with chasing targets, Dravid reflected on how batting alone is not the problem. He highlighted that they probably have not been good with the ball.

“There’s no point just blaming the batsman. I think with the ball also, to be honest, I didn’t think it was a 220 wicket, it was about a 195, 200 wicket, and we gave 20 runs extra,” said Dravid about the loss to PBKS in the press conference. “If we look at the numbers, we have probably not been good enough with the ball. Both at taking wickets and controlling runs. We are chasing 200-220 every game.”

‘Haven’t been able to finish the job’

“It’s been a tough one. We’ve got close, but we haven’t been able to finish the job. It’s been one of those kind of seasons where you always feel with the ball that we probably give 15-20 runs extra and then you’ve got yourself in some really good positions to win the games, but we haven’t been able to finish the job and a little bit around that lower, lower-middle order we just haven’t been able to click and get the big shots that we need,” admitted Dravid.

“I mean, it’s been five games now where the margins have really one or two hits, which you need in that phase, which we just haven’t been able to do,” said Dravid. “So it’s not that we’ve been losing too many wickets, we’re still only five down today, but we just haven’t been able to hit those shots.”

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