With one game to go into their IPL 2025 campaign, Rajasthan Royals has only three wins from 13 games. They may have hoped that the wandering interruption during the tournament due to India and Pakistan’s increase in hostilities would change their fate, but nothing has changed. They lost a succession of close matches in IPL 2025, and the trend continued when they dropped 10 runs from the total of Punjab Kings’ total of 219 for 5 on Sunday (May 18). The opponent margin date Delhi Capitals lost in Super April 16, Lucknow Super Giants lost by 2 runs April 19 Royal Challengers Bengaluru lost by 11 runs April 24 Kolkata Knight Riders lost Punjab Kings by 10 runs May 18. “You must have won. You must win these games” after the defeat against Punjab, head coach Rahul Dravid agrees that there were areas needed to get stuck in the Royals. “It was a difficult one. We got close, but we couldn’t finish the work, ‘Dravid said. “We got ourselves in some good positions to win the game, but we couldn’t finish the work.” A little around that lower middle order, we just couldn’t click and get the big shots we need. “You are watching the tournament and see that we only won three games, but when you see, we lost five games very nicely. If four five games go to the other side, the season will look good. This is not an excuse because you have to win these games. If you want to do well in this tournament, you can’t lose all five close matches. You can lose one or two but not all five. We couldn’t do it this season. “Bowling, the problem? It’s really one or two hits you need in that phase but just couldn’t do. And I think with the ball too – it’s no sense to just blame the batsmen.” Fares. Dravid’s assessment was factual. is, “Dravid said.” The bat of Jaiswal, Vaibhav’s batting, the bat of Jurel. There is Riyan, there is Sanju – we have quite a few good young Indian fighters, and in a year they will be even better. Maybe we should look at the bowling a bit. ” With some changes and a little luck next year, I think players will also be more experienced, so that we have to keep us well. A degree of correction and some change, if we want to stay competitive in this tournament.
‘Can’t lose all close matches’ – Rahul Dravid is unhappy with Royals’ defeats | Mint
