RCB assistant coach Malolan Rangarajan has said that Devdutt Padikkal has taken the bull by the horn and has done exceedingly well in IPL 2025. Padikkal has scored 230 runs in 8 matches for Bengaluru this season.
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00:01We didn't discuss that at all. Chales had quite a few celebrations after each game.
00:07He's entitled to it. He played a good knock. Good on him. So we've had no discussions at all.
00:14What do you want?
00:15Close.
00:16Close the door.
00:18I think he had two stellar years. He scored close to five hundred runs there.
00:34He's had a number three. How would you do this?
00:39When Dev was with RCB, I think he had two stellar years. He scored close to five hundred runs there.
00:47He's had an unfortunate runoff form in the last three years with RR and LSD.
00:52But again, just with the way we prepped in the auction, we were very clear on wanting a left-hander.
01:00And Dev sat conveniently for us on day two.
01:06Because I'm not going to beat around the bush and say that we went for him right away.
01:12We got him on day two.
01:13But again, the benefit of having worked with him before, myself and a lot of plays, even Virat.
01:19Virat was someone who's batted a lot with him.
01:22So knowing…having the comfort of knowing that Dev is available to be picked up later helped, number one.
01:28That's as far as the auction is concerned.
01:30But as soon as we knew Dev was there within our setup, the most important thing to me was the clarity that was given to him with regards to his role.
01:40Plus the work, which I think is the most important bit after that, the work he's put in.
01:45I think he was very hungry and he's been very receptive to a lot of technical and tactical ideas both DK and Andy have thrown at him.
01:54And finally, the way he's gone and batted for us.
01:58There have been a couple of tricky situations and tricky conditions also.
02:02He's taken the bull by the horn and he's batted exceedingly well.
02:05I'm very happy even if I remove my RCB cap.
02:09I know him well and I'm very happy for him.
02:12But again, this is just nine games done.
02:15The business half of the tournament is there and we're filled with optimism both for Dev and for the team.
02:21Hi guys.
02:22Tell yourself about Jacob Bethel, obviously your first time working with him.
02:27What's impressed you about him as a character that he's actually trying to see?
02:31Prior to the auction in all our planning, all I heard about Beth… Jacob Bethel was that he's a superstar and he'll become one very soon.
02:44And just having seen him in the last month or so, he has been unbelievable with his work ethic.
02:50And even the bloke off the field got a decent sense of humour.
02:54I wouldn't say great but a decent sense of humour.
02:57But he's destined for greatness.
02:59I wouldn't even say destined for normal things.
03:02He's destined for greatness.
03:03I think England have a genuine superstar in the making and selfishly even RCB would be very happy to have got him slightly early in the cycle.
03:15Yes.
03:16I just want to ask that, you know, from last season, somewhere in the middle of the season,
03:21Virat specifically did very well against left-hand spinners and left-hand spinners.
03:25He was putting inwards in Champions League, although the poor Champions League were playing all the spinners.
03:30But can you talk us too about his preparation, especially against left-hand spinners and left-hand spinners,
03:35the way we are seeing him getting them, you know, over a strike, you know, 150.
03:38Earlier that was not the case.
03:40Can you talk us too, how he prepared, is there any specifics, you know, he was going to attack on the background,
03:47somewhere out of the headboard of last season, do this season?
03:50I'll try to break this down into two halves.
03:53Number one, it wasn't only Virat last season who was not batting at the desired strike, right?
04:00It was the whole team.
04:02So, I think the whole team got together.
04:04They were very honest about it and I'm sure you guys have heard just like a broken record
04:08where we said we were very honest together inside a room and that's precisely what happened.
04:12That's part one.
04:13Part two is about Virat Kohli as the individual.
04:16He does not need to go and practice extra against left-hand spinners.
04:19He's batted for twenty, twenty-five years.
04:21He's a genius.
04:22He just has to decide what he wants to do and how he wants to take down a particular bowler.
04:26And it was… it's very evident with someone like Virat, even after having played for so long,
04:31he's constantly looking at what more he can do, which is to me unbelievable.
04:37The attitude with which he comes into every training session, every match.
04:43So, Virat I don't think did anything specifically, physically batting more of left-hand spin, batting more left-hand spin.
04:49It was just the group coming together and acknowledging the fact that we weren't good enough last year.
04:56But we've not had any sort of conversation this year.
04:58We know what we can do, what we can't do.
05:01Like I had alluded to a little earlier, this is the part of the tournament that we've been prepping for a while,
05:07the second half of the tournament.
05:09So, we're very excited about it.
05:11And I can feel the optimism across the group, through the staff, everybody involved.
05:18So, I think that's what is holding us and Virat to your particular question in good stead.
05:23I think that's great.
05:24Thank you, Mr. Dhanishi.
05:25Valol.
05:26Talking about the last video, , they have very significant circumstances between
05:30the three retreats of non-stopping, a solitary patient who will be lost.
05:36But the subject came to last year , which turned out to both have successful.
05:42What really happened?
05:43What was the reason for them to not make sure he became in the judiciary and about what changed
05:48Yeah, as far as the dimensions of Kotla is concerned, we will feel at home.
05:58We won't feel where it also will be used to that.
06:02To your first half of the question with the spinners not having impact,
06:07I think you just have to zoom out a bit and see the context of how much we'd scored.
06:12KP himself had bowled only six overs in the three games.
06:17That we had lost.
06:20I know Andy alluded to what KP has changed and we are going to try to…
06:26I mean you guys have watched enough cricket and you will be able to figure out what he is doing differently and what not.
06:32But I would say that it wasn't a good enough target nor did our spinners bowl enough.
06:40Suyash on the other hand I think had sparks within those three games where he showed how good he can be.
06:48So again like I said nine games, there are three other games where KP I think was a single handed match winner for us.
06:55Be it at Kolkata, at Jaipur and now also in Mulanpur and even the last game.
07:00I think both of them combining together, I don't know, I read it.
07:04I am not sure if it's a fact but I think that was the most impactful or economical spell of spin bowling by an RCB duo at Chinaswami.
07:13So they are learning.
07:14One is at one end of the spectrum, twenty-one years old, who looks like he has got the tools.
07:21The other has got a bag of experience.
07:23It's lovely to see how they are putting in the work and coming together.
07:26The role of an anchor.
07:43See again I can only talk about how we are thinking.
07:49We'd rather address it as how we can assess a situation and adapt accordingly because in the days of an anchor I don't know if two hundred scores were breached as easily.
08:01And I think that's one of the things we've realized in Chinaswami also.
08:04People tend to forget Chinaswami has been challenging this year as a pitch and last year also it wasn't as high scoring as it was previously.
08:16So we've realized that there might be a formula of how we score runs.
08:20You look at games we played against CSK.
08:23So we are not particularly inclined thinking about having an anchor.
08:30Because you see the way Virat is batting he is more the aggressor.
08:34Every time there is an opportunity for him to step on the pedal he does it.
08:40Salt we all know how he bats.
08:42So it's only IPL and any T20 cricket is about how you are able to shift the momentum.
08:48And we are looking at passages as to where we can identify that and maximize it.
08:54I am a bit late in the signal to ask you this probably after the auction would have been the right time but.
09:06You know RCP having a shift from having a wrist spinner where you try not to retain UT and then you try to run out and that.
09:12But now you have moved to two spinners who are probably not a spinner who turn the ball up in great pitch fast pitch.
09:18But it is on the flatter side.
09:20So what led to that shift in the mindset of the management and how do you see this pairing percentage from that.
09:26How we see this pairing coming along.
09:28And the Rodolfo Ronaldo especially in that video period.
09:30He is sucking life out of the game.
09:32Keeping it tight.
09:33Not giving you close many videos probably as a risk of a road.
09:36But just controlling the period where RCP are probably strutters in the last couple of years.
09:42I will just talk about how Suyash is perceived by us at least.
09:50Suyash I think has a big point of difference.
09:52His speed being one.
09:54And we think one of his super strengths is the ability to beat the back on both edges.
09:59He showed that I think the dismissal of English was outside the back.
10:05The dismissal of Russell was through the back.
10:08So I think he does turn the ball.
10:10His super strength like I said is the ability to turn the ball.
10:13Beat the back on both edges.
10:14And bowl at a very high speed so to say.
10:19Plus his action.
10:20It is peculiar in its own way.
10:23So that kind of again makes it slightly tough for the batter to do it.
10:28And as far as KP is concerned.
10:29KP again is somebody who if you went and saw his videos from 2016 or 2017-18.
10:36It was a completely different action.
10:38He has worked on his action.
10:40His release is very different to what it was maybe even two years back.
10:44So that is the combination I am talking about.
10:47Somebody who is 34 is still working on the technicalities of the game.
10:51Trying to get more dip on the ball.
10:53Drift etc.
10:54Change his release.
10:55Use the crease.
10:56Things like that.
10:57There are so many things they are doing.
10:58So that is the variation we have within the attack.
10:59Sure.
11:00Suya Sharma is not a household name yet.
11:03He will become one.
11:04That is the belief we have as a management.
11:06And KP we all know what is done.
11:08He has won the IPL a handful number of times.
11:10And he is here only for one job.
11:12And I am not going to say what it is.
11:13We will see at the end of the season.
11:14But he is here for one job.
11:15He is here for one job.