IPL 2023: My place is to play impactful innings, says RCB’s Mahipal Lomror after quick 54 not out vs Delhi

By India Today Sports Desk: Royal Challengers Bangalore batter Mahipal Lomror scored his first half-century inside the Indian Premier League whereas having fun with in direction of Delhi Capitals on Saturday, 6 May. Lomror positioned on a gift on the Arun Jaitley Stadium whereas the rest of the RCB batters struggled in a gradual Delhi pitch.

The left-hander scored 54* off merely 29 balls to help RCB attain 181 runs in direction of Delhi. While that turned out to be technique temporary on the day, Lomror’s potential to hit the spinners impressed many. Speaking after the match, the RCB middle-order batter spoke about his place and his key strengths inside the topic.

“My role was to play spinners and Virat’s role was to play the pacers,” Lomror spoke in regards to the sport in direction of Delhi Capitals.

The batter said that it was troublesome to reach milestones in his place as a result of it involved such high-risk cricket.

“Difficult to get big scores in my role. My work is to go and disrupt the bowlers and it is difficult to score big in such a high-risk approach. My work is to play impactful innings. Personally, it feels great to get a landmark, and if I am honest, I have wanted it for a while,” the batter smiled whereas chatting with the media inside the submit match press conference.

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The batter’s exploits bought right here in sharp distinction to the rest of the RCB facet who struggled in direction of spin, significantly Virat Kohli. Lomror said that he most well-liked batting in gradual tracks because of it helped one amongst his key strengths – hitting off the once more foot.

“I like slow wickets in general because you get a lot of balls to play off your back foot. And that is one of my strengths. I got help from the Delhi wickets because it was quite slow and I had a lot of time to hit the ball,” the batter said.

The loss meant that RCB weren’t tied with three totally different teams within the midst of the desk with 10 components from 10 matches. They are positioned in fifth place attributable to run-rate and are on the specter of slipping down within the occasion that they lose the next sport.

“The points table is quite tight this year and we would love to reach the playoffs place as soon as we can,” Lomror said on the current advertising and marketing marketing campaign.

RCB subsequent deal with Mumbai Indians on 9 May.