IPL 2022: Rajasthan Royals coach Sangakkara reveals which IPL team has 'best spinners'

Kumar Sangakkara, Rajasthan Royals' Director of Cricket and Head Coach, has revealed which IPL team has best spinners, and said that his franchise,  Rajasthan Royals, have two world-class spinners in Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal. duo were signed by Jaipur-based franchise going into IPL 2022.

“We’ve got two best spinners in IPL in terms of off-spin and leg-spin in Chahal and Ashwin" Kumar Sangakkara said in an official statement. He furr went on to add that team wanted to assemble a balanced squad and has done an amazing job to put this exciting and strong squad toger.

"I think franchise has done an amazing job to put this exciting and strong squad toger. We kw we had quite a bit of work to do in off-season with regards to our team. I think we mand to identify key areas which needed our attention and having had a proper process when it comes to selecting players at auction, we mand to kind of hit markers that we set for ourselves" he said. 

Citing examples of players, Sangakkara said that team mand to get almost all players y wanted and have covered all areas. He said, "We have Boult, Prasidh, Saini, Coulter-Nile, McCoy, which makes up for a very exciting pace unit supported by of course retentions of Yashasvi, Samson and Buttler. We have secured depth in every department, with Neesham, Mitchell and van der Dussen being exciting cricketers."

Kumar Sangakkara on a poor IPL 2021: 'That is all in past w'

When asked what went wrong in IPL 2021, Sangakkara said that re were too many factors, be it player availability, split tournament and also performances, and said that it is something in past w. He added, "I think re were a lot of different reasons for that, t just one or two. Wher it was player availability, split tournament, bigger break, and t best of match performances in terms of batting or bowling. But that is all in past w, and that’s why squad has changed. We are w focused on upcoming few weeks."

IPL 2022: Rajasthan Royals squad

Sanju Samson (captain), Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Riyan Parag, KC Cariappa, Navdeep Saini, Obed McCoy, Anunay Singh, Kuldeep Sen, Karun Nair, Dhruv Jurel, Tejas Baroka, Kuldip Yadav, Shubham Garhwal, James Neesham, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rassie van der Dussen, Daryl Mitchell.

Im: ANI