Hopeful that ABD, Badree and Mills will return to fitness before KKR game on April 23: Vettori 

FOLLOWING A 21-run win against Gujarat Lions in the 20th match of IPL 10, RCB head coach Daniel Vettori showered praise on the overseas players of the likes of Chris Gayle, Travis Head, Adam Milne and Shane Watson for their impressive performance. 

As reported by CricketCountry, Vettori spoke about the injuries in the RCB camp and added,

“Chris, as powerful and strong he is, can take any powerful bowling attack down. Samuel Badree [is] injured, Tymal [is] injured and obviously AB [is] injured. We have the likes of Chris, Travis [Head], Adam [Milne] and Shane [Watson] to go on in these situations makes a huge difference.”

The former Kiwi spinner said that he hopes to see ABD, Tymal Mills and Samuel Badree fully fit for the KKR game on April 23. 

“When we went to the auction process we wanted to increase out bench strength and fortunately today it has come through for us. Fortunately, we don’t play till the 23rd, that allows us bit of recovery time. We are hopeful that AB is fit for that, hopeful that Samuel is fit for that, hopeful that Tymal is fit for that. So, they do have an extended period of time before we play again. So, [I am] reasonably confident that they will be available to play. But it’s good Chris and Travis stood up today. So, we have more selection dilemmas.”

When asked if the team is suffering from fatigue, Vettori replied, 

“I think the guys enjoy playing repeatedly. They play, travel, play because they are getting the opportunity to get into a game to compete and try and win games. Sometimes when you have an extended break, you get rusty and training becomes boring. So, if you can stay injury-free then it’s great; if you can’t then that makes it a little difficult.”

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