Reasons for Rajasthan Royals’ collapse in CLT20 Final

Lack of strike bowlers:

The bowling attack of Rajasthan Royals relied too much on the shoulders of 41-year-old Pravin Tambe. Tambe performed better than the expectations whenever he was given the ball and consequently won the Golden wicket award with 12 wickets to his account. The team really lacked an effective pace bowler who could have controlled the situation in the death overs. The team leaked 98 runs off the last 6 overs of the Mumbai innings which changed the result of the match.

Bowlers like James Faulkner, Kevon Cooper and Shane Watson went for too many runs in the final phase of Rajasthan’s bowling. This all-rounder trio had the bowling economy of 7.45, 8.78 and 8.20 respectively at the end of CLT20 whereas Pravin Tambe bowled with a brilliant economy of 4.10 in this T20 tournament. Even the Jharkhand boy Rahul Shukla looked decent till the semi-final but the pacer went for 49 runs in his 4 overs in the CLT20 final.