‘You can’t just come out to bat…’, Gavaskar blasts Rayudu

MS Dhoni is not the only CSK cricketer who is perhaps playing his IPL this year. Ambati Rayudu too has reached the twilight of his career but unlike Dhoni, he is not having the best of finishes with the bat. He has managed to score 83 runs in eight outings in IPL 2023 at an average of 16.60.

Gavaskar said on commentary when Rayudu got out –

“You got to field. You can’t just come out to bat and start hitting the ball, you can’t do that. We have seen that with Prithvi Shaw. He has just been coming out to bat without success. No fielding, no scoring. Rayudu is out for a second-ball duck.”

On thursday, against RR at Jaipur, Rayudu was brought in as an Impact Player in place of left-arm pacer Aakash Singh. But he failed to make an impact.

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Gavaskar believes that –

Legendary Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar believes one of the major reasons behind that was the fact that Rayudu did not play any part in the match till then. He did not field and was drafted in as an Impact Player, which means he probably wasn’t warmed up properly.