RCB pacer Umesh Yadav feels that working hard is more important than relying on favourable conditions to win games in IPL.
“This is cricket, nobody knows what will favour which team in this tournament. It’s better to work hard than to rely on favours. If the bigger grounds favour us then fine but you also need to be 100 satisfied with your own performance,” Umesh Yadav told India Today in an exclusive interview.
Umesh also dismissed the notion that RCB rely more on their pacers and hailed their spin trio of Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar and Moeen Ali.
“We have world class spinners in Yuzvendra Chahal, Moeen Ali and Washington Sundar who have been doing so well for RCB. Our spin-bowling attack is really good, I don’t think we lack anywhere in the spin-bowling department,” Umesh said.
When asked if he will be under more pressure this year as the leader of RCB’s pace attack, Umesh said the speedsters will share the responsibilities equally between themselves.
“We have Chris Morris and Dale Steyn in the side so I feel we have the experience in our fast-bowling unit. Navdeep Saini has also played a few international matches so I don’t think anybody will be under too much pressure.
“Everybody has their own role defined, if we perform according to that we won’t be under pressure. Just focus on your game, what can you do better. We need to support and back each other, if the team plays as a unit the results will follow,” Umesh said.
Every year the loyal RCB fanbase chant the slogan “Ee Sala Cup Namde”, which basically translates to “this year the cup will be ours”. The team has come close on a few occasions in the past but the IPL trophy has eluded them.
Umesh opened up on the slogan that the loyal fans chant every year and said that they want to win the cup for the fans.
“It doesn’t add to the pressure but you sort of have a mindset that our supporters have been backing us for such a long time in every situation but we haven’t won the cup till now.
“Even then fans keep coming and support us. Definitely we feel the need to win the cup for them,” Umesh said.
