Kris Srikkanth, a legendary Indian cricketer, offered honest advice to Royal Challengers Bengaluru after the Faf Du Plessis-led club fell to Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2024 Eliminator on Thursday. RR thoroughly outplayed RCB, winning by four wickets. It marked the culmination of an incredible season in which RCB recovered from a poor start with six consecutive triumphs, including a thrilling win over Chennai Super Kings in their last league game. Srikkanth stated that RCB rejoiced too much after defeating CSK and advised them to remain quiet when they are enjoying success.

In life when you are doing well keep your mouth shut and keep going, when you make noise out of something you are doing you cannot do that work. They were posting unnecessary videos and showing off too much. That’s why RR came and destroyed them, that’s why in cricket you need to shut your mouth and play, former Indian opener said.

If you played well, congrats, if you played poorly then take the criticism but you should never open your mouth and show aggression. They are going on congratulating themselves for qualifying for the playoffs and for the great comeback, CSK and MI have done this so many more times. CSK and MI have both come from nowhere and won titles. These guys won six matches and as soon as they qualified, they got knocked out, Srikkanth added.

RCB captain Faf Du Plessis opened up on the defeat. With the dew coming, we felt we were short with the bat. Did think we were 20 runs shy of what was a good score. If you look at naturally assessing the pitch and conditions, you would say it’s a 180 pitch because it was swinging upfront and was quite slow, he said.