Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar has voiced his confusion and disappointment over Rajasthan Royals’ underwhelming performance in IPL 2025, following their fifth consecutive defeat of the season. After their narrow 11-run loss to Royal Challengers Bangalore on Thursday, Gavaskar raised concerns about the team’s approach to the game, particularly given the presence of Rahul Dravid as their head coach.

“With Rajasthan Royals, I’m actually talking about the earlier matches where I wasn’t at the ground. I just saw them. So, you're not always able to get the feeling of what’s really happening. But here, I was at the ground, and you could actually see the kind of cricket that was being played. And with someone like Rahul Dravid as the coach, it was quite baffling—it was unthinking cricket," Gavaskar said

"Dravid was always so precise in his thinking, and I would’ve thought that kind of approach would’ve seeped into some of the Rajasthan batters," he remarked.

"Where is the thought process there? You can’t expect inexperienced players to always get it right, but still... it’s just a different kind of cricket,” he added, suggesting that RR’s inability to perform under pressure stems from a deeper flaw in their approach rather than individual failures.