Rajasthan Royal's coach Rahul Dravid spoke before their game against Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Having won only 2 games out of 8 matches, Rajasthan are in heaps of trouble. 

When asked if beating his first team was an objective, this is what Dravid had to say;

"No, not at all, man. I don't think about it like that, to be very honest. Just trying to play a good game of cricket," Dravid said. "We know we have to play well to be still alive in this tournament. I know we've lost a couple of close games coming into this, but we've played some good cricket as well. It's one of those tournaments where a few balls going here or there and we might have been in a slightly different position, but you need to play well in those critical moments."

The pitches at the Chinnaswamy Stadium have posed difficulties for batters this season. RCB have posted first-innings scores of 169 for 8, 163 for 7, and 95 for 9 in a rain-shortened 14-over match, losing all three of their home games so far. 

"I mean, you just have to go for it irrespective and that's a given," Dravid said when asked about how to approach batting on such surfaces. "But I think every surface will be different. I think the last one, just having a chat with the groundsman, it was under covers for a really long period of time, so it was probably not a good one to judge it on.