HomeCricket DialecticsWhy are Indian players struggling to maintain their strike-rate in IPL 2024? 

Why are Indian players struggling to maintain their strike-rate in IPL 2024? 

Indian Players strike rate in IPL 2024

Why are Indian players struggling to maintain their strike rate in IPL 2024?

Indian Players strike rate in IPL 2024: In the last clash, Virat Kohli struck a century despite that Royal Challengers Bengaluru lost the match.  Virat Kohli faces criticism after the loss of RCB. The X trends with the tag and people stressed over the selfish game of Virat Kohli.

Also, netizens pulled out the loss over Virat when scores big for the side then RCB or India lost just after the loss of RCB at Jaipur.

Lets look at the details on Indian Players strike rate in IPL 2024:

It is a bit like the ridiculous narrative of the Sachin Tendulkar era. It was quoted that India won’t win if Sachin Tendulkar scores big.

But the narrative is almost vague from the other side as, on the same day Jos Buttler also knocked the century in 58 balls at the strike rate of 172.41.

Virat on the other hand gave all the hard work for the tram from the starting of the innings. Knocked at the strike rate of  156.94, and that is not a big difference.

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Where we can see a vast difference, Where Rajasthan Royals had a sturdy start with Buttler and Jaiswal, with time Sanju Samson and Buttler pushed the gears to finish off the game in style.

Where Sanju Samson gave knock of 69 with a strike rate of 164.29, Whereas Buttler is aggressive batter who need a back up form the other end.

Here RCB faced a problematic situation, Where Faf du  Plessis, Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Green. through this RCB had Virat as the only batter to kick off runs for the side, if he had played fearlessly then there would have been more runs on the board.

But the situations demand was then was a stability for the side.

There Virat gave good back to the side with out losing his wickets. That could be the reason for the slowest century that is trending right now on the social media.

Kohli’s strike rate dipped when he played the off spinners like Ashwin, and there were no left arm spinners to chain him down. He scored 14 runs with out hitting a boundary.

Where as he was more aggressive against the left arm spinners like Yuzvendra Chahal in total he took off 24 runs in 10 balls.

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The Crux of the situation where the players are not able to maintain the strike is only to back the team where they are in need to play for the side.

The IPL is a batters game where all the batters standing at the popping crease tries to fetch as much run they can in the innings they play.

That day Virat Kohli played the simple cricket to take the side to the maximum run they can, as the side was facing the lack of batters if he goes off soon.

The discussion did not ends here, KL Rahul also faced some back clash of his batting style. Playing against Gujarat Titans Rahul only manages to knock 33 off 31 balls.

So far Rahul has played  four IPL 2024 matches. He has scored only 126 runs with an average of 31.50 at the strike rate of 128.57. Rahul also managed to score a half-century, 58 in 44 balls against RR.

Players who have the capabilities to take the innings to different setups like Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant some times struggle in their batting style.

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When the side has to get more run these players take the game on their shoulder, there only  the game slows down with the over all strike rate. But In order to order to maintain it they finish off early.

This Inversely proportional to the speed of the play in the needed situation.

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Akash Kumar
Akash Kumar
Hi! I am Akash, a professionally trained journalist who graduated from Delhi University. I have spent several years playing cricket at the State level for Jharkhand. My passion for cricket and thrive to explore truth via journalism helped me to develop a character called – Sports Journalist. My contribution towards writing would be always out of the true spirit that longs for the game that Indians like the most.

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