We need to repay the batsmen: Richardson

Apr 27, 2016 at 11:25 AM

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We need to repay the batsmen: Richardson

Despite having the most destructive batting line-up in the tournament, RCB is finding it tough to win matches because of a weak bowling line up.

The bowlers have failed to support the batsmen and as a result, the team has not found the right balance yet.Injuries to star bowlers Mitchell Starc and Samuel Badree has made the matter even worse for the RCB.

RCB’s Australian recruit Kane Richardson made a terrific start to the tournament with the figures of 3-13 against Rising Pune Supergiants but conceded 53 runs from his four overs against Gujarat Lions in his last match.

Speaking about the bowling performance in that match Richardson said that the RCB bowlers were low on confidence.

“I think we’re just lacking confidence. That batsmen are putting up an average of 180 runs every game and that should make our job easy but that hasn’t been the case,” he said. “We’ve chopped and changed the team a little bit, especially in the bowling department. The more we play together, the more comfortable we get. Once we get that right we should be back on track,” Richardson told TOI on Tuesday.

The pressure to improve is increasing on the bowlers. Gujarat Lions all-rounder even took a dig at RCB’s bowling line up:

Their bowling line-up is not as strong, even a target of 200 runs can be chased against them on this wicket,” he said after their win in Rajkot last week.

The Australian bowler said that the bowlers should do their best to support the batsmen.

There is obviously pressure because everybody is talking about our bowling group letting our batsmen down. The only thing we have to do is try and repay the batmen for all the hard work they have been doing and we have to do that by starting to take wickets.That’s what we are aiming to do,” Richardson said.

Praising his teammates he said that the batsmen have been helping the bowlers in the nets.

In the nets, they just let the bowl and don’t go for the big shots.Shane (Watson) helps a lot because he is the leader of the bowling attack and is a frontline batsman too. So we are pretty lucky to have guys like him around.”

Speaking on how should the bowlers cope in the T20 format, the pacer said that the bowlers should remain motivated.

T20 is mentally more challenging for the bowler than physically . Some bowlers have turned in good results because they don’t get hit to the boundaries and they restrict runs, like Mustafizur Rahman is doing for Sunrisers Hyderabad. You just have to see the batsmen fail and help your team win, that’s the motivating factor which keeps us going,” said Richardson.

Talking about bowling coach Allen Donald and his role in the team the bowler said that Donald had been a good coach and the bowlers need to repay the faith shown by Donald in them.

Donald has been good, he is relaxed and keeps it simple. We have to repay him for all the hard work he puts in. Having worked with a few of them before joining RCB had my confidence up.”

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