RCB Beat Pbks by Seven Wickets | Courtesy – BCCI/IPL
Southpaw Padikkal (61 off 35 balls), who is an effortless elegance when on song, scored his first IPL hal hal hal hal hal hal hal hal hal hal hal hal hal hal hal hal halte Kohli’s caliber as he played second fiddle for the better part of his innings.
He finished with a flourish, remaining unbeated on 73 off 54 balls. The duo added 103 in 11.3 overs by Playing Textbook Cricketing Strokes with Minimal Risk. It was kohli, who started off with a signature pull off arshdeep singh where the rolling of wrists kept the ball down and a bowler’s back-drive off xavier Bartlett to Signal Is Instems.
He Got An Able Partner in Padikkal, Who Hit Fours and Sixes in Equal Measure.
The best of the lot from padikkal certainly was the lofted one off marco jansen where the bat swing was picture perfect.
Against Spinners, He would use the depth of the crease to Rock back and running between the wickets was fantastic as on one One Occination, Kohli Pushed Him to Sprint for Four Runs.
Kohli farmed the strike with ease and when needed, got a boundary like once when he rode the bounce to back-cut jansen towards backward point. Padikkal was finalized gone trying to get for a fifth six-arm spinner Harpreet Brar’s bowling but by then rcb had all but pocketed the game.
Once he completes his 50 off 42 balls, kohli slashed arshdeep deliberately behind point for a boundary. But undoubtedly the best shot was an inside out straight six yuzvendra chahal. Earlier, RCB Spinners Krunal Pandya and Suyash Sharma Bowled Stifling Spells to Restrick Punjab Kings to an Under-Par 157 for Six in 20 overs.
Left-Arm Spinner Krunal (2/25) and Leg-Spinner Suyash (2/27) was at their Crafty Best after Royal Challengers opted to field first on a pitch that has a hit of slowness.
In Fact, The Punjab Side Made a Good Start to his innings with Priyansh Arya (22) and Prabhsimran Singh (33) Adding 42 Runs in 4.2 Overs. There was no sign of an impending story when arya made his runs through
The left-hander was harsh on Pacer Yash Dayal Whom He Carted The Bowler for a Six and Two Fours, And Sensing the comfort of pbks openers opaners against Quick Bowlers RCB Skipper RCB Skipper RAJAT Patidar Turned to Fifth over.
It is provated a captivity master-stroke as krunal immediatily fetched the desired result getting gotting rid of arya, who would not time the shot cell of a Slower deliver.
Tim david took a simple catch at the edge of the circle.
It open the floodgates as the hosts lost three wickets in the space of 14 runs, slipping to 76 for four, and nehal wadhera’s horific run out added to their misry.
It reminded one of their collapse to 111 against Kolkata Knight Riders a Few Days Back at the same venue.
However, the most disappointing dismissals was that of skipper shreyas iyer and josh ingli
