After a four-wicket win over Gujarat Titans (GT), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain Faf du Plessis said he was nervous when his team lost six wickets early. Faf and Virat Kohli made an extraordinary start with a 92-run partnership, but lost their next six wickets within 25 runs. However, Swapnil Singh and Dinesh Karthik helped the team seal a tense win with 38 balls to spare. After the game, Faf said in the post match presentation, “We have been really good with both bat and ball in the last few matches. We have also been incredible in fielding. The wicket was a little different, there was a little more bounce. It Wanted to make sure we took information from the pitch and passed it on to the bowlers. Yes, one catch was dropped but that's the effort we're looking for and it was there throughout.”
“All the games we have played here have been high scoring, anything around 180-190 would have been par. The important thing was that when we went to bat we did not look at the scoreboard and that's the way we play. Let's try to play.” Was a little nervous (while losing the wicket). Maybe our assessment was not the best. Yes, we wanted to go there and get the score quickly. Maybe when we were behind by 4 runs to calm down a bit,” he added.
Talking about the match, RCB won the toss and decided to bowl first. At one time GT was 19/3. Then, a 61-run partnership between Shahrukh Khan (37 from 24 balls, with five fours and one six) and David Miller (30 from 20 balls, with two fours and two sixes) allowed GT to make a brief comeback. Helped in.
RCB continued to take regular wickets and once again reduced GT to 87/5. Then, a 44-run partnership between Rahul Tewatia (35 from 21 balls, with five fours and a six) and Rashid Khan (18 from 14 balls, with two fours and a six) took GT past the 100-run mark. Delivered. RCB bowled out GT for 147 runs in 19.3 overs.
Yash Dayal (2/21), Vijaykumar Vishak (2/23) and Mohammed Siraj (2/29) were among the top bowlers for RCB. Cameron Green and Karn Sharma took one wicket each.
While chasing the target, RCB made a partnership of 92 runs with Faf du Plessis (64 in 23 balls, with the help of 10 fours and three sixes) and Virat Kohli (42 in 27 balls, with the help of two fours and four sixes). Made a great start.
After this, RCB lost its way due to brilliant spells from Joshua Little (4/45) and Noor Ahmed (2/23). However, Dinesh Karthik (21*) and Swapnil Singh (15*) helped the team win by four wickets with 38 balls remaining.
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