Royal Challengers...

Somebody said RC is like a test team. Well, we can not say anything on the performance. Believe that the team got de-moralised from the McCullum onslaught in the very first match and they never recovered from it.
At the end of the day, somebody has to be at number 8.That's for sure no matter how best one performed.

To be frank, I never expected this team to perform. There are very known reasons for this unless you are fan of those players. If you see the batting lineup, all are test match players - dravid,kallis,jaffer,etc.. Its not a good fast moving in field team. Bowling is only revolving around Zaheer and others are pretty ordinary.

i think the main reason for their defeats is the weak captaincy by rahul dravid.
He is not sending his power hitter in the top of the batting because of which they are not gaining momentum at the start.

ROyal Challengers never had a team that consisted of natural T20 players. I was really hoping they would do well because there were players in the team that had to prove their worth as a good player in the fast paced version of cricket. I am talking about players like Dravid, Kallis and Jaffer. Though these players have been big names in international cricket, they were deemed unfit for the T20 version of the game by their national selectors. They had a point or two to prove to these people.

But sadly the selectors have been proved right. The Royal Challengers batting never really clicked in the tournament. They have not posted a total exceeding 180 in the whole tournament. This is a fair indicator of their big hitting capabilities. Jaffer, Kallis and Dravid have played well in a match or two but havn't been consistent at all. The bowling too has been blunt. A big reason for them not being able to check the oppositions score. They have usually had to chase down 160+ scores when they were batting second. And its not comfortable to be chasing at a rate of more than 8 runs an over from the beginning especially with players like Kallis, Dravid and Jaffer who take time to get set before they can open up.

its just not confidence t2o is more about quick thinking and flexible strategies thig is facilitated when u r playing without pressure see sharukh he always had supported hi team in win or loss that should b learned by the BRC owners and management
dravid is good test players that means he had got skills required to play cricket in any form

i liked the team when the ipl started myself, however dont really know what happened to them. I have a strong feeling it is their captain. there is just no interest taken by him. look at the other captains they are so alive.

my opinion is that their luck.secondly rahul dravid.he is a class player.but any thing in a correct place,correct time will help you a lot.dravid is a kind of a player who plays strokes and not a big shots at all the time.he has his best place in test team.why should he come out of that and getting more critics in ipl.you can imagine how his great captaincy was at the first match itself.he and jaffer opens the second innings with the bat.is jaffer and dravid are firing player with the bat?they are playing like test match in ipl.so dravid should not come out of his test cricket border should maintain his respect among the public.he can also coach a team.but he is not worth to play in ipl or one day cricket.

Royal Challengers does look like a test squad. But the players like Dravid and Kallis have the ability to change their game according to the format of the games. The main problem they are facing is the groove. They haven't find the groove on the squad and at the start if the IPL they got severly demmoralised by Kolkata knoght riders. And aboev all that team owner Vijay Mallya has doing things that is creating hostile atmosphere.