Former India cricketer Ajay Jadeja believes that the Delhi Capital (DC) should focus on stopping and replacing its top-order chopping in IPL 2025, while saying that KL Rahul and FAF do Plessis batted, resulting in losing to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). With five consecutive wins, DC made an unprecedented start for its IPL 2025 campaign. But his performance at his original home ground, Arun Jaitley Stadium, has been disappointing with two out of three matches.
His only win here was a nail-biting super against Rajasthan Royals. The DC will take the defending champion Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) next time on Tuesday, aimed at achieving its second domestic victory in New Delhi and keeping themselves in controversy for the playoffs.
“What they need to address, it is not very much chopping and changing. They started with Jake Fraser-Maikgurak-I could not be pronounced his name correct, so apologized to him. He started with him for three-four-five games, just because Karun Nair who did not come in the team and it happened.”
“So he went with him as a opener. Then he had three bad games, and he went back to FAF du Plessis, because he was fit again. So I think he is worried – uncertainty that he is bringing in favor and KL Rahul is his prominent player,” Jadeja, a geostar expert, Monday in a virtual interaction.
Against RCB, Du Plessis, returning from a waist injury and playing for the first time since April 10, struggled to go and scored 22 off 26 balls. On the other hand, Rahul struggled to be free as RCB spinners forced a squeeze at the scoring rate through adequate help from the two-book pitch, resulting in 41 runs in 39 balls.
The partnership between Do Plessis and Rahul for the third wicket was priced at 28 runs off 31 balls, with just one boundary hit. “The last game that you had referred to against RCB was when he had a partnership with FAF Do Plessis. He and he (Rahul) probably played at a similar speed. As we were talking about Virat, Delhi was doing very well till the game where Rahul will do what he does and all others had to play a different role.”
“When both, FAF Do Placeis and KL Rahul become important players, the pace of the game changes and I think they lost in the previous game. So, if I think I had a finger to point, I think DC had lost in the previous game and that’s what I see this time,” Jadeja said.
The results of this week and next week’s IPL 2025 matches will be important in determining four teams qualifying for playoffs. The top two teams assured to play in Qualifier 1 stated that Jadeja said that the top four (RCB, GT, MI, DC) and the lower four (CSK, RR, SRH, KKR) are equally high, although he said that its sources are very different.
“It is not just the top four, but also four below. The pressure is different. There is a top four pressure that you have mentioned – that we have worked hard or we have gone through two -thirds of the tournament if you can call and do good.”
“So now we should let it go and I think it’s much more pressure than numbers, eight, nine,” Listen that we have not found anything to lose, let’s go out there. So they have pressure to go out, but they have to get everything and the top people have everything to lose. “
“Here, the pressure is always with a team or players that have to lose something. So yes, there is a lot of pressure to maintain something, but it is about the league tournaments all – it’s not a knockout,” he concluded.
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