The auction is in a nail-biting phase. All teams are doing final bidding before finalizing the final squad. The battle of Hammer is still on. All are eying on the best deals before the auction ends. Royal Challengers Bangalore is one of the strongest teams. But unluckily, they never won an IPL title. This time, they are fighting hard to get the best team. They have done two excellent signs, one is the West Indies Pacer Alzarri Joseph and the other one is Yash Dayal. Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Director expressed his feelings over these two new signings.
Deal of Alzarri Joseph:
Royal Challengers Bangalore bagged an amazing deal. They purchased the West Indies pacer Alzarri Joseph with a whopping amount of 11.5 crore. Chennai Super Kings started bidding for the West Indies star at the base price of 1 crore. The Delhi Capitals entered into the bid. Then Lucknow Super Giants Joined Delhi Capitals. Lucknow and Bangalore bid till the end but RCB won the deal. They secured the deal with the West Indies pacer.
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Director of Cricket opened up about it. He said, “ So look, we’re delighted to have Alzarri. From our perspective, he was in our top three targets from an overseas pace bowling perspective. You’re always trying to navigate through the auction order, which makes things slightly tricky. And ideally, in an ideal world, we’d like probably for Starc to come out earlier and we can have a good crack at him and then, and then move on to, you know, your next target.”
He added, “ But from our perspective, we looked at what was left with the other team’s finances and that’s a tough call for us and we made a good judgment call, I think, to bring forward our interest in Alzarri and to have a good go at him. He’s a player that we really like. Now with Alzarri, he’s both high pace, he’s got a high release point, so he gets bounce. We know bounce is important at the Chinnaswamy. He’s also got fantastic death skills. You look at his record and he stacks up against anyone at the death.”
Lastly, he said, “He’s also someone that’s playing regular international cricket all around the world and franchise cricket all around the world. So he’s someone that can adapt to conditions and surfaces. So we’re pretty happy with Alzarri in that sense. And he’s someone also that the captain knows really well. So Faf and him have a really good relationship and they’ve got a real trusted dynamic between them. So for us, it ticks a lot of boxes.”
On Yash Dayal’s Inclusion:
Another excellent bid has been made by Royal Challengers Bangalore. RCB purchased him with a whopping amount of 5 crore. The promising left-arm fast bowler’s base price was 20 Lakh. however, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants appeared in the bidding war. The price was raised to 5 crore and RCB sealed the deal.
On this purchase, RCB’s Director of Cricket said, “ With Yash Dayal, obviously, a slightly different pick in that sense that he’s a domestic player that’s had some experiences. We like the left-arm angle. We like the fact that he moves the ball up front. We want to make sure we’ve got the right battery of bowlers domestically that can supplement the likes of Alzarri. Obviously, we’ve got Cameron Green as well.”
Later he added, “ So we think we’ve got a really nice balanced attack with real variety and we wanna make sure that we have got variety whenever we step out in the field from a pace bowling perspective. So we’ve got enough bounce, we’ve got enough pace. we’ve got Siraj who’s a champion, swing bowler up front, and we’ve got a left-arm angle. So it’s just putting together our arsenal to take on the opposition.”
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