The penultimate game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Delhi Capitals (DC) in Abu Dhabi. It was the fight to reach second place on the points table and DC was the one who came out as the winner after brilliant half-centuries from Ajinkya Rahane and Shikhar Dhawan. After winning the toss, the Capitals asked RCB to bat first.
The Capitals’ bowlers kept on bowling disciplined line and lengths to the RCB openers Devdutt Padikkal and Joshua Phillippe. Struggling to middle the ball, Phillippe (12 from 17) gave his wicket to Kagiso Rabada, on the very first ball of his spell. After the dismissal, skipper Virat Kohli came out to bat, and along with Padikkal, he continued milking runs from the other end. Kohli got a life courtesy of a dropped catch by Nortje, Kohli (29 from 24), but eventually perished to R Ashwin.
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RCB failed to score runs consistently on the two-paced track, and a double-wicket over from Anrich Nortje – where he got the wickets of the half-centurion Padikkal (50 from 41) and Chris Morris crumbled RCB’s momentum further. Shivam Dube and AB de Villiers (35 from 21) added 33 for the fifth wicket, but they were eventually dismissed in the 18th and 19th respectively, as RCB managed to post a below-par 152 at the loss of 7 wickets.
The opening woes of DC continued as Mohammad Siraj got the better of Prithvi Shaw’s stumps after squaring him up, but after that, Shikhar Dhawan and Ajinkya Rahane played in some sensible, mature, and controlled cricket. Getting boundaries at regular intervals and milking singles with ease, it seemed that the two would take Delhi home with ease.
Although Dhawan (54 from 41) perished while attempting a scoop to Shahbaz Ahmed, the required run rate was well within DC’s reach, but then, skipper Shreyas Iyer got hurried up and gave Ahmed his second wicket. Rahane (60 from 46) was also dismissed while reverse sweeping Washington Sundar in the 17th over, although the score for Delhi, by then, had crossed 134.
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In came Marcus Stoinis and Rishabh Pant, who both steered the Capitals to a win by 6 wickets with an over to spare. Although, once RCB took the game deeper than 18.2 overs, their spot on the playoff got stamped too. Delhi Capitals goes to second means they meet Mumbai Indians in the first qualifier, whereas KKR will now pray that MI slams SRH tomorrow to clear their path.
Here is how Twitter reacted after RCB vs DC game:
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Send us yours ⬇️#DCvRCB #YehHaiNayiDilli #Dream11IPL pic.twitter.com/dz3q4TwbQt— Delhi Capitals (Tweeting from 🇦🇪) (@DelhiCapitals) November 2, 2020
We have the three qualifiers for #Dream11IPL 2020.
Who will take the vacant spot? pic.twitter.com/6PkxK6nzsa
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) November 2, 2020
#DelhiCapitals wins against #RCB by 6 wickets. #DC gets valuable 2 points taking their total to 16 points and is number 2 on the points table. Both teams have qualified for Playoff.#RCBvDC
— Sreedhar Pillai (@sri50) November 2, 2020
RCB qualify for the playoffs with 4 consecutive losses! #IPL2020 #RCBvDC
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) November 2, 2020
Haar kar jitne wale bhi baazigar hote hai… #rcb
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) November 2, 2020
Thank you Iyer! #IPL pic.twitter.com/eH3HeGX6Zm
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) November 2, 2020
Well done to @DelhiCapitals and @RCBTweets on their qualification in the @IPL playoffs … one more spot left
— Scott Styris (@scottbstyris) November 2, 2020
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Top-2 in Points Table in each #IPL season:
2008 – RR, KXIP
2009 – Delhi, CSK
2010 – MI, DC
2011 – RCB, CSK
2012 – Delhi, KKR
2013 – CSK, MI
2014 – KXIP, KKR
2015 – CSK, MI
2016 – GL, RCB
2017 – MI, RPS
2018 – SRH, CSK
2019 – MI, CSK
2020 – MI, Delhi#IPL2020— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) November 2, 2020
