<p>Ross Taylor has been the most popular import in Bangalore, and it’s not difficult to see why.<br /> The disarming young man is a mighty striker of the cricket ball and thus a great entertainer, and fancies his chances of playing his first game this season for the Royal Challengers against the Delhi Daredevils on Sunday.<br /><br />“The team has been playing good cricket,” Taylor said on Saturday. “Hopefully, I can add something to the team and hopefully, I can add something tomorrow. We’ve got some exciting players and a few players that are coming into form. Hopefully, the likes of Kohli and Pietersen can continue the form and the form that Robin Uthappa showed yesterday continues too.”<br /><br />Taylor is just coming off a two-Test series against Australia which the latter won 2-0. What adjustments does one need to make going from the five-day format to the T20 version? “Twenty20 is all about expressing yourself and having fun,” he replied. “Australia gave us a good lesson on how to play Test cricket. I am trying to forget about that Australian series, we were completely outplayed. <br /><br />“Any century against Australia is good but I had a bit of luck along the way,” Taylor said of his blistering ton in the first innings of the second Test. “80 balls is probably not the normal way to get a Test hundred, but I guess it was a good lead-up into the IPL!”<br /><br />Refltcing on the Daredevils, he went on, “With Gambhir coming back into their line-up and Daniel Vettori added on, they are a good side. The wicket here is slow and the way Daniel has been bowling, a slow bowler on that wicket will be really hard. But we are happy with the way our team is travelling and we have got a little bit of momentum after we played Punjab yesterday. We probably need to win two or three games to guarantee a semifinal slot, so that’s our main focus leading into tomorrow.”</p>
<p>Ross Taylor has been the most popular import in Bangalore, and it’s not difficult to see why.<br /> The disarming young man is a mighty striker of the cricket ball and thus a great entertainer, and fancies his chances of playing his first game this season for the Royal Challengers against the Delhi Daredevils on Sunday.<br /><br />“The team has been playing good cricket,” Taylor said on Saturday. “Hopefully, I can add something to the team and hopefully, I can add something tomorrow. We’ve got some exciting players and a few players that are coming into form. Hopefully, the likes of Kohli and Pietersen can continue the form and the form that Robin Uthappa showed yesterday continues too.”<br /><br />Taylor is just coming off a two-Test series against Australia which the latter won 2-0. What adjustments does one need to make going from the five-day format to the T20 version? “Twenty20 is all about expressing yourself and having fun,” he replied. “Australia gave us a good lesson on how to play Test cricket. I am trying to forget about that Australian series, we were completely outplayed. <br /><br />“Any century against Australia is good but I had a bit of luck along the way,” Taylor said of his blistering ton in the first innings of the second Test. “80 balls is probably not the normal way to get a Test hundred, but I guess it was a good lead-up into the IPL!”<br /><br />Refltcing on the Daredevils, he went on, “With Gambhir coming back into their line-up and Daniel Vettori added on, they are a good side. The wicket here is slow and the way Daniel has been bowling, a slow bowler on that wicket will be really hard. But we are happy with the way our team is travelling and we have got a little bit of momentum after we played Punjab yesterday. We probably need to win two or three games to guarantee a semifinal slot, so that’s our main focus leading into tomorrow.”</p>
