Currently, the Royal Challengers Bangalore are playing their last game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 against the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at home. After winning the toss, the RCB skipper, Virat Kohli decided to bowl first and soon he received the benefit of the same when they got the wicket of Wriddhiman Saha in the fifth.
Despite losing Saha early, SRH ended up scoring 52 runs in the powerplay thanks to the powerful hitting of Martin Guptill. However, things took a drastic change for the visitors in the 8th over bowled by Sundar as he dismissed Guptill with a soft dismissal and the in-form batsman Manish Pandey owing to a brilliant catch by Hetmyer in the same over.
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After those dismissals, SRH needed a partnership and Williamson started one with Vijay Shankar as they added 45 runs for the 4th wicket before the latter getting out in the 14th over of Sundar. Before getting out he had smashed bowler for a couple of sixes. Soon SRH lost the crucial wickets of Yusuf Pathan, Mohammad Nabi, and Rashid Khan as well.
The visitors were struggling at 147/7 after the 19 over, but then Williamson smashed the final over bowled by Umesh Yadav for 28 runs with the help of 3 fours and a couple of sixes. On the penultimate ball of the over, the umpire called a no-ball which was a wrong call, which helped Williamson to score an extra boundary and take his team to a total of 175/7 in their quota of 20 overs.
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During the chase, RCB suffered a huge loss in the first over after the dismissal of Parthiv Patel for a duck. After his dismissal, Kohli and Ab de Villiers also got out soon and the hosts were struggling at 20/3 after the first three over. Then Hetmyer and Gurkeerat Singh started to make a partnership and a funny incident took place on the penultimate ball of the 5th over. Hetmyer smashed the ball with some power only to find Gurkeerat’s bat at the other end and the bat flew high in the air:
Here is the video of the incident:
Gurkeerat's bat in the air…!!https://t.co/jhrSln9uTK
— Vidshots (@Vidshots1) May 4, 2019
