After bottling a third successive chase in the IPL 2025 season, the Rajasthan Royals are staring at the exit door sooner than expected this time. Taking the field without skipper Sanju Samson, Rajasthan succumbed to an 11-run defeat to the Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, extending their losing streak to five matches, their longest in 15 years.
It was also the Royals’ seventh defeat in nine matches, leaving them on the eighth spot in the standings. However, India batting legend Sunil Gavaskar could not hold back on Rajasthan’s lack of application under head coach Rahul Dravid.
‘Where is the thought process?’
“I’m actually talking about the earlier matches where I wasn’t at the ground. I just saw them. So, you’re not always able to get the feeling of what’s really happening. But here, I was at the ground, and you could actually see the kind of cricket that was being played. And with someone like Rahul Dravid as the coach, it was quite baffling—it was unthinking cricket,” Gavaskar said on Star Sports.
“Dravid was always so precise in his thinking, and I would’ve thought that kind of approach would’ve seeped into some of the Rajasthan batters,” Gavaskar remarked.
Gavaskar lamented Rajasthan’s structure as a major flaw in the team’s approach this season, banking on youngsters to do the heavy lifting.
“Where is the thought process there? You can’t expect inexperienced players to always get it right, but still… it’s just a different kind of cricket,” Gavaskar said.
