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Hospice: The 58th match of the Virat Kohli scored the 8th century of his IPL career, RR bowlers were dealt fours and sixes – rr vs rcb virat kohli hits 8th century on 67 balls stormy batting terrorized rajasthan bowlers
– 2024-04-07 03:03:52″>Indian Premier League 2024 was played between Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamshala. RCB’s winning streak continued in this match also. He scored the winning four and defeated Punjab Kings by 60 runs in their own home. Vijayarath of Bengaluru is still going on. Not only this but RCB is also still in the race for the playoffs.
After losing the toss, thanks to Virat Kohli’s inning of 92 runs, RCB was successful in scoring 241 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing the target of 242 runs, Punjab Kings could not even play the full 20 overs and were all out for 181 runs in 17 overs. This is Bengaluru’s fourth consecutive win. Now RCB has 10 points in 12 matches. On the other hand, Punjab Kings were out of IPL 2024 after losing their 8th match.
Riley Rousseau and Jonny Bairstow played good innings
The first wicket of Punjab Kings had fallen for 6 runs in the form of Prabhsimran Singh. However, after this there was a tremendous partnership between Riley Rousseau and Jonny Bairstow for the second wicket. Both of them added 65 runs in a stormy manner. When Punjab’s second wicket fell in the form of Bairstow in 5.5 overs, Punjab’s score was 71 runs. Beysto was out after scoring 27 runs. Whereas Riley Rousseau scored a stormy 61 runs in 27 balls. He hit 9 fours and 3 sixes in his innings. Later, Shashank Singh also scored 37 runs in 19 balls with the help of 4 fours and 2 sixes. However, apart from these three batsmen, no other player could make any significant contribution. Therefore he was all out on 181 runs. Mohammad Siraj took maximum 3 wickets for RCB. Apart from this, Swapnil Singh, Lockie Ferguson and Karn Sharma took 2-2 wickets.
RCB flies in the storm of Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar
Thanks to Virat Kohli’s brilliant inning of 92 runs in 47 balls and Rajat Patidar’s stormy half-century, 241 runs were scored for seven wickets against Punjab Kings in the rain-affected match. The fielders of Punjab Kings dropped many catches during the innings, due to which after being invited to bat, Kohli and Patidar took full advantage of the lease of life and scored 72 runs in 32 balls. When Kohli had not opened the account and was on 10 runs, he got two lives. He made full use of these opportunities, making good use of his wrists and feet and completed his sixth half-century of this IPL phase.
Patidar also got two lives. He accelerated the score initially and hit six sixes and three fours during his innings of 55 runs in 23 balls. Kohli and Cameron Green (46 runs on 27 balls) continued the same aggressive batting and added 92 runs in 46 balls, taking RCB beyond 200 runs.
Green hit five fours and a six before being caught out on the last ball of the innings. With this, RCB scored 77 runs in the last five overs. Fast bowler Vidwath Kawerappa (2 for 36) took two wickets in the powerplay on his IPL debut. Harshal Patel took 3 wickets while Arshdeep Singh and Sam Curran also got 1-1 success.