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RCB Cricket Director Eyes Overseas Fast Bowlers in IPL Auction
Mo Bobat, the Director of Cricket for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), expressed the team's eagerness to acquire overseas fast bowlers during the upcoming IPL Auction in Dubai. Ahead of the auction, RCB successfully acquired Australian all-rounder Cameron Green through a trade with Mumbai Indians. The team heads into the auction with a budget of Rs 23.25 crores and the task of filling six slots, with three designated for overseas players.
They will focus on securing overseas fast bowlers and spinners following the departures of Josh Hazlewood and Wanindu Hasaranga. Additionally, the team is keen on exploring Indian bowling options after parting ways with Harshal Patel, and Shahbaz Ahmed has been traded to Sunrisers Hyderabad. "We have got a strong core of retaining players, and we have got a very powerful top order. Part of the decision-making that we had around our player release decisions was to try and strengthen the middle order and bringing Cameron Green was a fantastic move".
"Mohammad Siraj is a core part of what we do so supporting Siraj with some more bowling options including overseas bowling options is going to be a real priority for us moving forward". "Then we have got a core of local spinners, which I think is quite strong. Some of them got some opportunities over the last year or two and they might play more leading roles moving forward", said Bobat in a release issued by the franchise, where he spoke on the auction strategy during RCB Innovation Lab’s Leaders Meet India held last month.
Bobat, who will be leaving his role as England Men’s Performance Director to be full-time with RCB, expressed his commitment to creating a performance-based culture in the side. "I am committed to a long-term project here. We have a fantastic captain in Faf, and an excellent group of senior players with the experience of Virat, Maxi (Maxwell), and DK (Dinesh Karthik). So the ingredients are really strong".
"The next objective is to make sure we create the right performance, and culture where the players can really go and showcase what they are capable of, and go out and entertain the public. If we commit to our processes, play a brand of cricket that is aggressive, and have those moments where we're prepared to be brave it will get the fans going".
Bobat also discussed the skill, physical, and psychological attributes in the process of identifying the most suitable candidates for RCB at the auction. The team, despite not having won an IPL title yet, is actively working to find the best potential fits.“Naturally cricket tends to get attracted to and gravitate towards things like the control and the lateral movement of fast bowlers but what we should be doing is identifying players that have the pace and the balance".
"The reason I draw that distinction is you can teach someone to ball accurately, you can teach someone to develop craft and lateral movement but it is not that easy to teach pace or manufacture balance because you are talking about their release height and their physicality". "So understanding that distinction between which of those attributes we need to identify and which of those things we can teach over time is a really important distinction".
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