Batting Coach Vikram Rathour Lists Out Reasons Behind RR's Dismal IPL 2025 Season

Rajasthan Royals finished their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season with four wins from 14 games and eight points on the board. Currently, they are ninth on the points table and looks like they will finish there only as even if the Chennai Super Kings (CSK), whom they beat in their last encounter, go on to win their last game of the season against Gujarat Titans, most likely, they will not be able to cross the nat run rate of the RR and would therefore finish last despite having same points as the team from Rajasthan. 

This has been the worst season endured by the men in pink and blue ever since the league became a 10-team affair in 2022. In historical terms too, it is one of the worst as RR have previously finished last just once in 2020 and second last in a table on three other occasions, in 2010, 2019 and 2021. 

Reacting to such a dismal show, their batting coach, Vikram Rathour, on May 20 said, “I don’t think we particularly fielded very well in this tournament. Bowling wise, we were let down a few times when they let the opposition score 10-15 extra runs in most of the games. Batting was our strength as we had retained five batters in our squad.”

“At times we got terrific starts, we got ourselves into positions where we should have finished the game, so yeah it hurts. But it also gives you hope for the next season because the worst is over,” he added, recounting at least three chases where they could have ended up on the winning side and that would have meant that they would have finished with at least 14 points on the board. 

Rathour further hoped that the worst was over, and they would only come back better next season. “Next season we are going to come as an even stronger batting unit as all these guys will have played at least one more year of international and domestic cricket,” he said.