Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) hosting Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in their second home game of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. However, in the 15th over of the game, the home skipper, Faf du Plessis smashed Ravi Bishnoi for back-to-back sixes and the second one went out of the ground.

Earlier in the game, LSG skipper, KL Rahul won the toss and decided to bowl first owing to the flatness on the pitch and chances of dew later in the innings. RCB openers, Faf and Virat Kohli managed to score 56 runs in the powerplay overs with the latter scoring most of the runs. However, they failed to continue the momentum and as a result, Virat lost his wicket in the 12th over bowled by Amit Mishra after scoring 61 off 44 balls.

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After the dismissal of Kohli, Glenn Maxwell joined Faf du Plessis and decided to go hammer and tongs as they started smashing the LSG bowlers all over the park. The biggest testimony to the same came in the 15th over of Ravi Bishnoi as Faf and Maxwell smashed him for three sixes combined.

However, the eye-catching one was the second from Faf du Plessis as it traveled a distance of as many as 115 meters. On the previous delivery as well, Faf smashed the leggie for a six over wide long-off as Du Plessis made room for himself and smashed it for six. The ball which went out of the ground was a short one outside off and Faf clobbered it out of M Chinanswamy.

Here is the video of the huge hit from Faf du Plessis:

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Anuj Rawat, David Willey, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj

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Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): KL Rahul (c), Kyle Mayers, Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Krunal Pandya, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Jaydev Unadkat, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Mark Wood, Ravi Bishnoi