RCB’s tremendous victory in Delhi, Krunal and Kohli’s magic reached the top of the table|

RCB made a tremendous recovery in the chase after a difficult Powerplay and defeated Delhi Capitals by 6 wickets. Chasing the target of 163, Krunal Pandya scored 73* runs in 47 balls and Virat Kohli scored 51 runs in 47 balls. Both of them made a wonderful partnership of 119 runs, which won the match for RCB and took the team to the top of the points table.

Turning point of the game

DC’s batsmen kept struggling against RCB’s sin duo Krunal and Suyash Sharma. RCB’s spin duo Krunal and Suyash Sharma kept struggling against them. RCB’s Krunal and Kohli were also slow in the initial phase, but they built the innings with patience and later increased the pace.

Middle Overs Comparison:

Delhi Capitals Story:

Powerplay: Abishek Porel played some big shots against Bhuvneshwar Kumar but Josh Hazlewood finished off his work. Krun Nair also couldn’t do anything special. Hazlewood showed his experience in the Powerplay and made the purple cap his own with tight bowling.

Middle Overs: Faf du Plessis and Rahul both got stuck in front of spin. Suyash and Krunal stopped the flow of runs. When Faf came to attack, Kohli caught him at long on. Axar Patel also failed to make the expected impact and Hazlewood uprooted his middle stump.

Death Overs: Stubbs played some good shots and along with Nigam scored 36 runs in 2 overs, but Bhuvneshwar controlled the damage with his experience and restricted DC to 162/8.

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Chase:

PowerPlay: Virat Kohli and Jacob Bethell attacked Starc early, but Axar Patel broke the momentum by bowling a double wicket over. Rajat Patidar also got run out early.

Middle Overs: Kohli and Krunal gradually shifted gears after a slow start. Krunal hit 2 sixes in one over of Mukesh and will play big shots against Kuldeep and Axar. Krunal completed fifty in 38 balls.

Death Overs: Kohli made the chase easy but Chameera got him out. Tim David came in and ended the match by hitting 6,4,4,4 in one over of Mukesh.

Match Summary:

Delhi Capitals: 162/8
RCB: 165/4
Result: RCB won by 6 wickets
RCB’s next match will be after 5 days against CSK and DC’s next match will be against KKR.