What happened in the 2016 final? Why did Shane Watson apologize to RCB fans?

• RBC team has reached the eliminator in IPL 2024
  
• Eliminator match will be played between Rajasthan and RCB
  
• Now Watson has apologized to RCB fans for his performance
  

In this season of IPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore team has reached the eliminator. Where it will compete with Rajasthan Royals. RCB is now dreaming of lifting the IPL trophy. Earlier the team had reached the finals in 2009, 2011 and 2016. The team qualified for the playoffs in the 2020, 2021 and 2023 IPL seasons. The team last played the final in 2016, after which it never reached this level. They were defeated by Sunrisers in the final. Shane Watson became the villain in RCB's defeat. He gave a flop show in both bowling and batting. Watson has now apologized to RCB fans for his performance.

RCB had to pay the price for this

The former Australian all-rounder apologized to RCB fans during an event at Bengaluru's Presidency University. As soon as he came on stage in the program, the fans started raising slogans of RCB, RCB…. After this Watson said- “I apologize to all RCB fans today.” I expected to give my best performance there, but my performance in the final was the worst. Perhaps RCB had to pay the price for this also.

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What happened in the final?

Sunrisers Hyderabad batted first in the match played in Bengaluru. Sunrisers made a huge score of 208 runs by losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. RCB's bowling was very bad. Shane Watson scored unbeaten 61 runs in 4 overs with an economy of 15.25. After this, when he came to bat, he flopped. Watson was sent to bat at number five. Where he returned to the pavilion after scoring just 11 runs on 9 balls. RCB team could score only 200 runs at the loss of 7 wickets and lost the match by 8 runs.

Virat Kohli-Chris Gayle batted brilliantly

Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle gave a great start to RCB. Both the batsmen made a partnership of 114 runs in 10.3 overs, but as soon as Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli were out, the entire team fell apart. Gayle played an inning of 76 runs and Kohli played an inning of 54 runs. 2016 proved to be a great season for Virat Kohli. He broke the record by scoring 973 runs in 16 innings at an average of 81.08 and strike rate of 152.03.