Royal Challengers Bengaluru once again couldn’t break the home curse and faced its third loss of the season and that too at their own home turf. In Match 34 of the ongoing IPL 2025, RCB faced PBKS at the M. Chinnaswamy Bengaluru and ended up losing by five wickets in a 14-over-a-team match on Friday night after losing against Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals here earlier.
Speaking on the consecutive home failures, RCB pacer Josh Hazlewood said that the batter’s inability to learn from previous matches has contributed to the team’s third defeat at home. In the post-match conference, Josh was seen saying, “Yeah, I think it’s not a typical Chinnaswamy wicket. Obviously the bounce has always been there, but it’s in past years, it’s probably been more consistent,”
He further added that if lack of strong power play added to the RCB woes and also reflected that if we can have our top five, top six doing the batting for the 20 overs, I think that’ll go a long way to helping us win.
Slow on learning, but still hopeful: Hazlewood
RCB pacer Josh Hazlewood reflected on RCB’s performance at home and dubbed the team as slow learners. “Yeah, it’s obviously three in a row now at home. It’s just we’ve probably been a bit slow on the learnings from the first two games and didn’t put that into practice as well as we could have, probably in those first probably six to eight overs, obviously, with the score the way it was,” Hazlewood said.
However, the pacer showed confidence in his team’s ability to buck the frustrating trend at the earliest. He also gave a word of advice for his colleagues in batting front, step back for a moment and analyse the conditions before going for bigger shots, he said
“But we’ll dive into this game and, you know, probably more so when we get back to Bangalore and really go through in detail and with a fine tooth comb and come up with a few ideas of where we can learn and improve.
“I think the bowling definitely improved from the last two outings. So sort of we’re slowly getting there, but probably not quick enough,” he said.
As of now, RCB is still in playoff contenders list and find themselves in the top four keeping alive the hopes for the IPL 2025 Trophy.
