2024-05-05 16:37:17
Bengaluru: Due to the stormy batting of Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Gujarat Titans by 4 wickets at home. In the match, RCB won the toss and bowled first and bundled out Gujarat’s innings for 147 runs in 19.3 overs. After this, Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli together created a stir for RCB while chasing the target. Faf du Plessis played a brilliant inning of 64 runs in 23 balls with 10 fours and 3 sixes. During this time he had completed his fifty in just 18 balls.
Not only Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli also made a lot of noise with the bat. Kohli played an inning of 42 runs in 27 balls. Although after the dismissal of Faf, RCB’s innings faltered as soon as the power play ended, but Dinesh Karthik once again returned playing the role of finisher and led RCB to victory. With this win, RCB now has 8 points from 11 matches. In such a situation, if RCB wins the remaining three matches, then due to the run rate equation, it will still have a chance of reaching the playoffs. At the same time, the hopes of Gujarat Titans of reaching the play-offs are almost over. Gujarat is at 9th position with 8 points from 11 matches and the run rate has also become worse than RCB.
RCB scored 92 runs in power play
In this match against Gujarat, RCB team batted in stormy style and scored 92 runs in the first 6 overs. During this period the team lost only one wicket. Will Jacques came out to bat after Faf du Plessis was out. After the first wicket, there was a slight break in the run rate of RCB. Along with this, the team also lost the wicket of Will Jacques on the score of 99 runs.
After two wickets, it seemed as if Gujarat bowlers had returned to their full form. Joshua Little and Noor Ahmed together made the match exciting. After the power play, Gujarat team had put RCB in trouble by taking 6 wickets.
Dinesh Karthik finally took charge
After the dismissal of Faf Duplessis, four RCB batsmen together could score only 8 runs. Amidst the continuous falling of wickets, there was a great opportunity for Gujarat to make a comeback, but Dinesh Karthik took charge and batted till the end to lead the team to victory. Karthik remained unbeaten after scoring 21 runs in 12 balls. Karthik also hit a total of three fours in his innings. Apart from this, Swapnil Singh also scored 15 runs in 9 balls.
Joshua Little took 4 wickets
The way Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli started the chase for RCB, it seemed that the team would get a big win, but as soon as RCB’s first wicket fell, Gujarat’s fast bowlers Joshua Little began to wreak havoc.
Little took 4 wickets for 32 runs in 2 overs. Joshua Little was joined by Noor Ahmed who took two wickets. During this period, if both of them had got the support of other bowlers of Gujarat, then perhaps the team could have pulled off a big upset by defending 147 runs.