Don't deserve to win with such type of fielding: Kohli

BENGALURU: Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli mentioned they did not need to win towards Kolkata Knight Riders and blamed the entire group's sloppy fielding for his or her six-wicket loss which has jeopardised their IPL marketing campaign.

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RCB slumped to their fifth defeat in seven video games after failing to shield 176 towards KKR closing night time.

"If we look back, we didn't deserve to win. I don't think we're trying hard enough, we need to be hard on ourselves. We don't deserve to win if we field like that. We can't afford to field like that and let singles go to boundaries. We were just not good enough tonight."

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If RCB lose their subsequent tournament, they might put themselves in a precarious situation of winning all final video games, out of which four are away video games. Kohli mentioned they want to consider each and every tournament as a virtual semi-final from now.

"I can't pin point anything right now, we need to win six out of seven to qualify from here. We need to be in that mindset to take every match as as virtual semi-final from now," he mentioned. "There's no room for lapses, complacency or hesitation. We need our guys stepping up and hopefully the guys can put up a better show."

Brendon McCullum mentioned it was a big blow for Royal Challengers Bangalore to omit the services and products of AB de Villiers in the an important tournament towards Kolkata Knight Riders on Sunday.

"We definitely missed AB de Villiers. He is probably the best player in the world and one of the best we have seen in the history of the game, so for him to be absent was a huge blow for us. He is a tough customer as well, so obviously he is pretty ill to not take the field today," he told reporters in the post-match press conference.

McCullum hoped for De villiers to go back in the subsequent tournament towards Mumbai Indians after improving from a viral an infection. "He is desperate to get out there, so hopefully he will be back in the next game. He is such a key player for us, and such a good leader. A good man to have around," he added.

Asked whether or not KKR were glad to not in finding de Villiers in the playing checklist, man-of-the-match Chris Lynn mentioned: "Yeah, it is obviously a few smiles at the bowler's faces.

"We know AB, in the shape he is, is all the time a perilous batsman but lets no longer take the foot off the throat because Baz (Brendon McCullum) is such a excellent striker of the ball. [We had] a little half-smile but we knew we nonetheless had a role handy," Lynn mentioned.