2024-04-25 20:43:30
Hyderabad: Royal Challengers Bangalore’s top order batsman Rajat Patidar has spoken strongly against Sunrisers Hyderabad. He scored his stormy fifty in just 19 balls. He has thrashed the bowlers of Sunrisers Hyderabad badly. RCB captain Faf Duplessis had won the toss and decided to bat first at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad.
In such a situation, Bangalore’s star top order batsman Rajat Patidar created a ruckus with his stormy batting. He deflated the Sunrisers bowlers. Especially he stole the show by hitting 4 sixes in one over of Mayank Markandey.
Patidar hit Mayank Markandey for 4 sixes in one over.
Actually, the 11th over of Royal Challengers Bangalore’s innings was being bowled by leg spinner Mayank Markandey for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Rajat Patidar was on strike on the second ball of his over. Mayank first bowled a wide ball. After this, what happened on the next 4 balls was probably something no one would have imagined. Patidar hit 4 sixes on the next 4 balls. He deflated Markandeya by beating him. Mayank Markandey got a total of 27 runs in that over.
RCB needed 21 runs from 6 balls, KKR won the breath-taking match by one run.
Patidar hits fifty in 19 balls
Rajat Patidar completed his half-century facing just 19 balls. However, after scoring his fifty, he was out on the very next ball. Facing 20 balls, he batted at a stormy strike rate of 250 and scored 50 runs with the help of 5 sixes and 2 fours.
Playing 11 of both the teams for the match
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (captain), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Nitish Reddy, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markandey, T Natarajan.