“¿Sabía él lo que pasó”?

No one wants to really remember the horrific night of May 8, when the PBKS vs DC match was suspended due to security reasons in Dharamsala, and the IPL 2025 was eventually stalled. Director of Cricket for RCB, Mo Babat has now opened up, as to what really happened in their team camp, as the events unfolded.

“Yes, quite chaotic. Tried to stay quite calm and tried to get as much information from the BCCI as possible and try to communicate with clarity. It was a pretty eventful evening. We practiced the day before the Lucknow game. And, then, actually on the bus on the way back, a lot of the guys were watching the game on their phones, the Punjab vs Delhi Capitals game,” Bobat told RCB Bold Diaries.

“And then we saw the floodlights had gone out and the players had come off the field. We were not too sure what was going on, and only when we got back to the hotel we kind of got a proper sense of what was happening,” he added. Babat added, that his first thought was, that the IPL 2025 would be cancelled altogether.

“So that evening a lot of rumours, a lot of chat and the next morning we found out that our game wasn’t taking place and the competition had been suspended for a period. Our initial impression was that the competition would be called off for a period of time. You don’t expect a conflict like that to resolve itself, as it did.”

“We were quite keen to send the players home because actually (it was) a good chance for them to have a break. So for the Indian players, that’s relatively straightforward,” he said.