An exhilarating finish to Royal Challengers Bangalore’s second contest of IPL 2022 as they overhauled the goal of 129 towards Kolkata Knight Riders with 4 deliveries and three wickets to spare in Mumbai on Wednesday night time. RCB thus bounced again from a disappointing efficiency with the ball of their season opener towards Punjab Kings for a a lot improved show towards KKR to gather two factors.
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Skipper Faf du Plessis received the coin toss and opted to bowl first, citing dew as the most important motive behind his choice to chase. His bowlers backed the decision as Wanindu Hasaranga and Akash Deep mixed to share seven wickets whereas Harshal Patel chipped in with two wickets to bowl out KKR for a beneath half 128 in 18.5 overs.
However, RCB’s chase didn’t become a clean experience as they misplaced wickets in a heap however someway had left sufficient within the tank to drag themselves over the road because of Dinesh Karthik who made an unbeaten 14 to see them via.
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With their first win of the season, RCB have now two factors from as many matches however with a poor web run-rate of -0.048, they’re at the moment sixth within the standings, proper behind KKR who’re additionally on two factors and a NRR of 0.093.
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Hasaranga justified his price ticket of Rs 10.74 crore as he ran via KKR batting line-up and completed with figures of 4/20 which took his total tally from two matches to 5 and thus pushed him to the highest of the chats. He took the Purple Cap from Kuldeep Yadav who has slipped to 3rd now.
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However, there was no change within the prime run-getter record tonight regardless of Du Plessis being dismissed cheaply on 5. The RCB captain had began his season with an outstanding 88 towards PBKS and has now 93 runs from two innings which is simply 12 runs greater than Ishan Kishan on the second spot.
RCB will subsequent face Rajasthan Royals on April 5 whereas KKR tackle Punjab Kings on April 1.
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