Both teams are at the bottom of the table. The team that loses will be eliminated. Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings entered the field with such an equation in front. However, Bengaluru won. And Punjab is confirmed as the second team of the current IPL to leave the season. Mumbai Indians are the first team who left before them.
Batting first in this match, Bengaluru posted a huge score of 241 runs for 7 wickets. In response, Punjab were all out for 181 runs. Consequently, Bengaluru won by 60 runs. Virat Kohli’s strike rate was heavily criticized. Starting from Sunil Gavaskar, former Indian cricketers were washing Kohli. He batted slowly. It was not right to take him to the World Cup team. However, He was looking for a perfect opportunity to respond to all the criticisms.
The world’s best batsman got that chance at Dharamshala Stadium. Played against the Punjab Kings at a strike rate of 195.74. He got out with 92 runs off 47 balls. Hit 6 sixes with 7 boundaries. Virat Kohli’s batting spree saw Royal Challengers Bangalore post a huge score of 241 runs against Punjab Kings for the loss of 7 wickets.
Punjab captain Sam Curran invited Bengaluru to bat after winning the toss at Dharamshala. Bengaluru lost Faf du Plessis (9) at 19 runs after coming down to bat. Will Jacks, who scored a century in the previous match, got out after scoring 12 runs. Then Virat Kohli turned around the match with Rajat Patidar.
These two together made an impeccable pair of 76 runs. Kohli completed his half-century in 32 balls. Rajat Patidar was dismissed for 55 runs off 23 balls. He hit 6 sixes with 3 boundaries. Then Virat Kohli made a pair of 92 runs with Cameron Green. Then, Virat Kohli was dismissed at 211 runs. He was nearly caught once for zero runs. Then, Kohli got a life even at 10 runs. Finally, he got out after going for 92 runs.
In this match, he crossed the milestone of 600 runs in this year’s IPL. With this, the Indian batsman crossed the 600-run barrier for the fourth time in the IPL. He also hit the 400th six in his career in this match. After Kohli’s dismissal, Dinesh Karthik came to the field and was dismissed for 18 runs in 7 balls. Besides, Cameron Green scored 46 runs off 27 balls.
In reply, Jonny Bairstow and Rilee Rossouw handled it nicely despite having the shock (Prabhsimran Singh, 6 off 4) at the beginning to bat. They scored 65 runs off 31 balls for the second wicket. Bairstow stopped after scoring 27 runs off 16 balls. And Rilee Rossouw played a great innings of 61 runs off 27 balls.
But Rilee Rossouw’s fight alone did not help Punjab. Because, apart from Shashank Singh’s 37 runs, no one could stand at the bottom. Only Captain Sam scored 22 runs. The innings of the rest did not even touch double digits and they got a 60-run defeat.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru – 241/7 (20.0)
Punjab Kings – 181/10 (17.0)
Result – Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 60 runs.
Player of the match – Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli
Punjab Kings | Sam Curran (c), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Rilee Rossouw, Shashank Singh, Harshal Patel, Ashutosh Sharma, Rahul Chahar, Liam Livingstone, Arshdeep Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Vidhwath Kaverappa |
Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Faf du Plessis (c), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Swapnil Singh, Cameron Green, Karn Sharma, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Siraj, Virat Kohli, Lockie Ferguson |
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