Royal Challengers Bangalore have not enjoyed a great outing in the ongoing IPL season with just three wins in 10 matches, but their dependable batsman Ab De Villiers believes that RCB can still make it to the play-offs of IPL 2018.
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“And yet, and yet … we’re not dead yet. There is no doubt that we need to win all four of our four remaining league matches — against DD at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Saturday, against KXIP in Indore on Monday, then at home to SRH on Thursday and, finally, against RR at Jaipur on Saturday 19 May. We know we have let people down, yet we know we retain a chance of sneaking into the knockout phase, and we still believe we can beat anyone,” De Villiers wrote on his column for the Times of India.
RCB has always been a crowd favourite and the fans were expecting the Virat Kohli led side to turn the tables and win their maiden IPL trophy in 2018, but De Villiers has admitted that the team has failed to live up to the expectations
“It might be said that RCB is currently the ill golfer of the IPL. We have assembled a strong squad and we have played well at times and yet, in crucial moments, usually in the closing overs with both bat and ball, we have let ourselves down badly, won only three matches out of 10 and now find ourselves on the brink of elimination,” he wrote.
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De Villiers, who missed two matches for his side due to an injury has scored 286 runs in 8 matches including a blazing innings of 90 not out against Delhi Daredevils at M. Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru.
RCB will next face Shreyas Iyer led Delhi Dardevils at Kotla on Saturday.
