"IPL will help me become a better ODI player"

After managing a mere 179 runs and five wickets in the Ashes, Ali found himself out of the team for the second New Zealand Test, and then dropped for the Pakistan series.

Pleased after being able to express himself with the bat, Ali hoped that his team's confidence gets a boost going ahead.

He credited RCB support staff, including Gary Kirsten and Trent Woodhill, for his improved batting.

The English player hammered a 34-ball 65, which was studded with two boundaries and six sixes, to guide RCB to 218 for 6.

However, all is not lost for Moeen Ali, who has made his debut in the IPL after being picked up by the Royal Challengers Bangalore

Axed from the England squad for the Tests against Pakistan, Moeen Ali says his IPL stint will make him a better one-day player and improve his game.

Ali has been instrumental in keeping Royal Challengers Bangalore's chances of qualifying for playoffs intact. He picked up two wickets and in the company of AB de Villiers then, smashed a match-winning half century against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

He was one of the potent weapons of his side in Test cricket even till the last series.

But lack of impact performances and emergence of young cricketers has now forced the selectors to look beyond the all-rounder who used to turn matches at will.