Currently, the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) are locking horns with Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) in the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. After winning the toss, the KXIP skipper, Ravichandran Ashwin asked the hosts to bat first and his decision cost him dearly as Bangalore smashed as many as 70 runs for the loss of a crucial wicket of their skipper Virat Kohli after the first six overs.
Parthiv Patel started smashing the KXIP bowlers from the word go. However, RCB lost their skipper in the 4th over of Mohammed Shami and Parthiv took the revenge for the same as he smacked Shami for as many as 18 runs in the final over of the powerplay with the help of three fours and a six. However, in the 7th over itself, Patel was dismissed by Murugan Ashwin. From 70/1 in the 6 overs, RCB came down to 81/4 at the end of the 9th over.
WATCH – AB de Villiers Smashed One-handed Six Out Of The Ground
However, then AB de Villiers and Marcus Stoinis decided to stay till the end. Both of them stuck in the middle and decided to go behind the bowlers in the last four overs when they smashed as many as 64 runs. RCB reached a total of 202/4 in their quota of 20 overs.
During the chase, KL Rahul and Chris Gayle came out all guns blazing as they smashed 36 runs in the first three overs itself. Umesh Yadav was bowling the 4th over and Gayle started it with smashing the six over long-on and on the very next ball he attempted the same but failed as De Villiers took a comfortable catch at the long-on.
WATCH – Last Over Carnage From De Villiers And Stoinis
KXIP scored as many as 68 runs in the powerplay as Rahul and Mayank Agarwal carried forward the momentum but both of them were dismissed in the 10th and 11th over respectively. After their dismissal, David Miller and Pooran decided to take Punjab over the line as they scored as many as 68 runs for the 4th wicket, but the former got out in the 19th over of Navdeep Saini followed by Pooran in the same over itself and the game got over after that as they needed 30 runs in the last two overs.
WATCH – De Villiers Takes A Boundary Line Catch To Dismiss Chris Gayle
However, the similarity between both the dismissal was that De Villiers took brilliant catches to dismiss both the batsmen at the long-on boundary. Here are the videos of the dismissals:
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1121117374961164288
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1121117446721589248
