Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) head coach Andy Flower praised Mohammed Siraj after his three-wicket haul in Match 14 of the Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025). Siraj picked up 3/19 in four overs in his first outing against RCB after leaving the franchise and played a key role in Gujarat's eight wicket win.
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00:00I think do I think sorry what's that last question done oh no definitely not
00:27done no no not at all but I think there was obviously when they came out chasing
00:36a smaller total than what's normal at Chinnaswamy you could see that they
00:40played a little more carefully in power play definitely and try to keep keep
00:44wickets in hand that's no doubt we played obviously very aggressively in
00:48power play and lost some wickets lost three wickets in power play so was it
00:54four in power play four wickets in power play so that was obviously a big swing in the
00:59game you know often if you lose power play you're in trouble so and they were
01:05quite quite they were very different power plays weren't they so we had to
01:09fight hard thought we scrapped very well after power play with the bat you know
01:15Livingston, Gitesh, Tim David I thought they scrapped really well to give us a
01:20total that we could challenge them with we scrapped hard in the field but it
01:25wasn't quite enough I think I think the toss was reasonably important today
01:31there was quite a lot of dew out there we know that happens here and I think
01:38the in in the first innings there the ball did grip off the seam with the
01:43drier ball so I think that that was fairly important in their context of the
01:47game.
01:54It definitely wasn't a typical Chinnaswamy wicket where you'd expect the ball to come on a little bit quicker than that but it's also important to acknowledge that you know that's not the reason for the result you know they played better than us today they were sharper than us today
02:18and I thought they bowled very well Siraj bowled very well didn't he so it's it's
02:23great for Siraj to to come here and do that and I thought you know he bowled an
02:30outstanding spell there with the new ball his lines were really tight his
02:35lengths were good and he threatened the stumps a lot so good on him.
02:40Yes, Andy I know we've touched upon this in our first answer, we spoke about the mid-riders trapping the leaver, would you say that this is the kind of mind game that they would need to deal with going forward because of the batting ject with Godworth's wife or do you think it's more of God that they made in the middle based on condition of the chin?
03:04Look we we've got a very powerful batting lineup no doubt about that we've seen that
03:10in all three games so far so lots of power lots of it and and good touch with
03:17Virat and and Dev so I'm really happy with our batting order they this is an
03:27attacking game and aggression is very much a part of the game I think always
03:35there's an assessment of risk you're making in any format of the game you
03:38know so you know getting that risk-reward balance is part of the
03:44batsman's job always and I think in the face of some good accurate bowling from
03:50them you know we struggled in power play today no doubt about that so good on
03:55them sometimes that happens.
03:58Happy? Virat looks fine yeah he's okay thankfully yes I think you know we we
04:28all rate Siraj very highly of course and we love Siraj I think I think we had a
04:36good auction and I think we've got a good squad together I wish Siraj all the
04:41all the success in the world and I think we're just we happy with the squad that
04:46we've got
04:59I'm sorry I didn't get that Sudarshan he played beautifully I thought you know
05:11the choice of shots he played the spin nicely chose the areas he wanted to hit
05:17the spin I thought really well so you know he's had a good start to the
05:23competition so I think it wasn't the turning point of the match not at all
05:30but he played very well and he held their innings together during that
05:34period