Mike Hesson the coach of Indian Premier League Club Royal Challengers Bangalore ( RCB) revealed that his team’s captain Virat Kohli who is also the captain of the Indian national cricket team was ambitious to get Proteas fast bowler Dale Steyn on his team and after RCB sign him for 200 lakh rupee. But Steyn never found a buyer before buying a Protea Speedster in Bangalore for Rs 200 lakhs (2 billion).
The 36-year-old speed star from South Africa has two previous appearances with RCB including last year. As he was played just 2 games before his injury where he came in as a replacement.
On Thursday Hesson, the 45-year-old coach from New Zealand was asked about the late call for Dale in the auction of Indian Premier League (IPL). As Cricinfo stated his answer,
As We were ambitious to get Steyn but we knew that if we bid on him early, it would probably be three or four billion, which would have had an impact. I have exchanged several hundred messages with Virat for probably several hours. I think he felt that we went to bed for a few hours in between, but he knows best what our plans are. He was as keen on getting Udana and Steyn as we were.
Steyn played 92 IPL matches and took 96 wickets at an average of 24.73. This South African fast bowler is currently in Australia with the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League but still injured due to lateral strain.
Is there anything better than watching Dale Steyn bowl the stumps out of the grooves?
We’re definitely expecting him to make major contributions to these current IPL stats.#PlayBold #IPL2020 pic.twitter.com/bp7sd5v7jb— Royal Challengers (@RCBTweets) December 21, 2019
Hesson also revealed that Kohli and former ex-batsman AB de Villiers should put less pressure on Australian opener Aaron Finch’s signature. When De Villiers was held in Bangalore, which is his IPL franchise for 20 years. On the other hand, Bangalore has become as 2nd home for another Proteas all-rounder Chris Morris as he is going to play his 13th edition of IPL on this team. Morris was involved in a bid battle wh
2020 IPL squad for RCB (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
Moeen Ali, Virat Kohli, Parthiv Patel, Shivam Dube, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Pawan Negi, Devdutt Padikkal, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Navdeep Saini, AB de Villiers, Aaron Finch, Dale Steyn, Shabaz Nadeem, Kane Richardson, Joshua Philippe, Pavan Deshpande, Chris Morris, Isuru Udana, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar.
