KL Rahul returns to his home ground in Bangalore in a sensational style, breaking an unbeaten 53-gent 93 to dig his side out of a hole.
Starting from Smriti Madhana and Sah in the Women’s Premier League, in two matches in the Indian Premier League season, Royal Challengers Bangalore has not yet won the match at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. After a former player in Mohammad Siraj, he ran through him in the last stability when he won the Gujarat Titans, it was his own in KL Rahul as Delhi Capital won his fourth straight game, chasing 164 in 17.5 overs. The result meant that DC continued his correct start for the season with four wins in four, while RCB lost its first two matches at home.
KL Rahul Masterclass
After the winner was killed six, KL Rahul took off his helmet, put a circle on the ground with his bat, put it in the middle to mark his area and, as soon as he went to hug Triston Stubs, mouth words: ‘This is my land.’
It was usually a strong performance of emotions from reserved Rahul, and it also marked the back-to-back-winning knock, even continued to move around the batting order. In his home ground, he put DC on a full masterclass of batting to guide for an impressive victory, which was a difficult night to bat largely. After going out to bat third at number 4 with DC in initial trouble – and after opening in the last match – Rahul once again showed why he is Mr. flexible in Indian cricket. He was going with a delightful off-drive for Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s Char, but soon when one of the rare-one rare Mishit shots was removed from his bat-a diving was placed by a silver Patidar. Along with departing with Exer Patel, Rahul did not lose a lot of wickets to DC.
Game-Crossing KL Rahul’s match winner 93*(53) 🔥
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In the 12th and 13th over, Rahul decided to shift the gear. A luxurious slogan from Krunal Pandya from a length ball went to six from the broom. And as soon as Liam Livingstone came for the 13th bowling, Rahul again identified an inauguration. A rank short ball was placed completely between deep midwickets and a four for a long, then an elegant dance-down-on-track lined shot came that cleaned the vision-screen. DC finally chased 13 runs with Krunal’s over and 14 runs away from Livingstone. After that the required rate was exactly 10 runs-over.
Then the game-changing 15th over came. Patidar Josh went to Hazlewood, and the ground staff agreed to bring the cover as it was dripping. DLS Par was score at 107 and DC 99. Rahul then broke Hazelwood around the park with laser-like accuracy-two fours through the square on the side, one behind a square, one, and a six down ground. It was a 22 runs that DC was pushed to 121/4, which is now 6 runs. Similarly, Pendulum pursued the path of DC. From there, Rahul and Stabs did not leave the pedal from the pedal to finish the match with 13 balls.
Rahul said, “It was a little difficult wicket, but I helped me be behind the stump for 20 overs and just to see how the wicket was played,” Rahul said. “The ball was sitting a little in the pitch, but it was consistently consistent; it was not a two-book. I knew what my scoring pockets were. Made lucky with the dropped catch. But yes, this is my ground, my house. I know better than someone else.”
A eccentric powerplay over
In both the innings, in the 12 -over powerplay bowling, there was a eccentric sequence of six balls from Mich Starc for 30 runs. A total of 73 runs and five wickets were seen in the remaining 11 overs, including a wicket girl from Mukesh Kumar for DC, in which RCB’s powerplay was closed. Stark, returning to the Chinnaswamy Stadium in the IPL, has a good start for the season, which is watching in large -scale rhythm. But Philt Salat quickly took off his anger over Australia. The first ball of the third over, the salt went for a long time for 79 meters six. Stark stuck for an uniform entire length, but became widespread, and salt cut it at the point for four. Perhaps the swing is still expected, Stark continued the mistake on the full side, and another limit was the previous mid-on. One ball is not next, which was squeezed in the last middle. Then as salt worked hard on a free hit, the top edge took all the way behind the stump. All Starc could manage it, there was a smile as he had returned to his mark. However, things were going to be in favor of DC.
Phil salt bounced on Stark!
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Trigger collapse
Stark took RCB by 30 runs to Tejashwi of 53/0 after 3 overs. Just when it seemed that RCB was laying the foundation for a huge score, in the next over, salt had to march back. After tapping the ball towards the cover, both salt and Virat Kohli took it for the same, but were guilty of ball-looking before making a very late call. As soon as the salt returned, he lost his leg and slipped on the pitch. By the time he was recovered, the throw of Vipraj Nigam was collected clearly by Rahul and Bell was killed. It was run by a sick-judge to start by salt and Kohli’s hesitation also did not help. From there, RCB lost its way. Devdutt fell inside the Padikal Powerplay, and Kohli immediately fell after. After that Stark, RCB scored just 38 runs in the next 7 overs, losing 4 wickets. Tim David once again did his job with a brilliant late cameo, but reduced to 163 well.
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Brief score: RCB 163/7 (P Salt 37, T David 37 Not Out; K Yadav 2/18, Vipraj Nigam 2/18) lost by six wickets to DC 169/4 (KL Rahul 93 Not Out, T Stabs 38 Not Out).
