: WPL 2023: RCB shouldve capitalised on the form of their players, says Veda Krishnamurthy #IndiaNEWS #Sports Mumbai, March 11 (IANS) India batter Veda Krishnamurthy believes the Royal Challengers Bangalore

WPL 2023: RCB shouldve capitalised on the form of their players, says Veda Krishnamurthy #IndiaNEWS #Sports
Mumbai, March 11 (IANS) India batter Veda Krishnamurthy believes the Royal Challengers Bangalore should have capitalised on making their in-form players bat when the overs were getting less during their ten-wicket defeat to UP Warriorz in the Womens Premier League (WPL).
Bangalore had Ellyse Perry getting a fifty, but that was not adequate to avoid a ten-wicket thrashing from the Warriorz. The rest of Bangalores star-studded batting line-up had another disappointing batting show as they lost their last seven wickets for 40 runs.
When you have Heather Knight, Erin Burns, and Richa Ghosh in the middle order already, they sent Kanika Ahuja and Shreyanka Patil in an attempt to split them. When the overs were dwindling, they shouldve capitalized on the form of their players. Heather Knight has been playing for England at No. 4 (she batted at No. 5 on Friday). For me, I wonder why they elected to send the batting order that they did, said Veda, a WPL expert for Sports18 and JioCinema, after the game ended.
With four losses in as many matches, Bangalore are at the bottom of the points table, with issues aplenty like not having a settled number four, unable to capitalise in middle overs and bowlers leaking runs aplenty.
Speaking in a select virtual interaction facilitated by Viacom18 on Friday, former India cricketer Reema Malhotra pointed out that Bangalore hadnt been making optimum use of their domestic players. If one has a glance at the RCB team, then it emerges that they are a top-heavy side. They have good players in Smriti Mandhana, Ellyse Perry and Renuka Singh Thakur. But the problem is, they havent been able to use their Indian players really well. They have an all-rounder in Kanika Ahuja, but hasnt been given a ball yet.
But for Punjab, she always bowls as a regular bowler. One can also see Poonam Khemnar in their last game against Gujarat, who also wasnt given a go with the ball. If one has options, but hasnt been able to use them yet, it then shows up in shortage of bowling options as well as in the captaincy of Smriti Mandhana.
Theres pressure riding on Smriti, the most expensive player of the tournament, who hasnt been able to find her groove with the bat and has also been dealing with four straight losses as a captain. Reema felt questions shouldnt be raised on Smritis captaincy as she didnt have enough time to understand her players in the WPL.
I have played against Smriti and saw her captaincy; shes someone who has taken her Maharashtra side to final in domestic cricket. There are questions which shouldnt be raised on her captaincy as she joined the team only two days away from the competition and didnt get time to understand her domestic players.

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