‘I don’t have an answer yet’ – Sanju Samson on RR’s embarrassing loss against RCB in IPL 2023

Rajasthan Royals (RR) face Royal Challengers Bangalore in Match 60 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023, at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Sunday, May 14. The Bangalore side won the match by 112 runs and Wayne Parnell was awarded the Player of the Match for his brilliant performance in the match.

Sanju Samson was speechless in the post-match presentation, which shows that he was equally taken by surprise when his team’s batting collapsed. Samson stated that the side’s strategy was to take advantage of the Powerplay, which failed, but the RR captain emphasized that the defeat will be difficult to accept.

We have to keep strong: Sanju Samson

“I think our top three were scoring a lot of runs, we go hard in the powerplay but it didn’t come out today. It’s too soon to analyze or dissect the game. You need to go hard in the powerplay knowing the ball was getting slower and older, that’s the way me, (Yashasvi) Jaiswal and Jos (Buttler) have played throughout. Credit to the RCB bowlers for their energy and intensity. I think this was a target that could have gone to the wire, I expected a tight match if we had a decent powerplay,” Samson was quoted as stating in the post-match presentation.

The Royals had a good start to the season, winning four of their first five games, but since then, the team has been incredibly inconsistent, losing six of their next eight games. When Samson was asked to name the cause of the season’s shocking decline, the Royals captain simply said he didn’t know.

“That’s a great question. I was just thinking seeing the batting collapse where we went wrong? I don’t think I have an answer to that yetWe all know the nature of the IPL, we’ve seen some funny things happen in the league stage. We have to keep strong, take a day off and think about the game in Dharamshala,” the 28-year-old stated.