IPL 2020
Devdutt Padikkal Takes Brilliant Catch At The Boundary Line
By CricShots - Oct 5, 2020 9:57 pm
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During another high-profile match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020,  the fans got to witness another excellent boundary-line catch, this time it’s the youngster of the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB),  Devdutt Padikkal during their Monday-night bout against Delhi Capitals (DC). Earlier in the day, RCB skipper Virat Kohli won the toss and welcomed Shreyas Iyer and his men to bat first at the Dubai International Stadium.

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Devdutt Padikkal took a brilliant catch to dismiss Shreyas Iyer

Openers Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan gave Delhi a fiery start as they had amassed 63 runs in the powerplay itself. However, the run flow slowed down after Mohammed Siraj sent Shaw back to the dressing room for 42 and skipper Iyer came out to bat and tried to carry forward the momentum. 

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Shreyas made a short partnership with Dhawan who was next to go back to the pavilion for his personal score of 32 as RCB fought their way into the game. With the run-flow slowed down, Iyer took the responsibility of moving up the ante and took on Moeen Ali.

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On the third ball of the 12th over, Paddikal took a superb catch at deep midwicket. Ali got the ball to dip which prompted Shreyas to go for a monster hit but only managed to get more height than the length on it. Paddikal, a tall man, set himself up at the midwicket fence, took the catch, lobbed the ball back up as he falls over, stepped out, comes back in, and completed the catch comfortably.

Here is the video of the catch:

 

Meanwhile, RCB made a couple of changes to their playing XI from the previous game as they replaced Adam Zampa and Gurkeerat Singh Mann, replacing them with Moeen Ali and Mohammed Siraj respectively. On the other hand, DC replaced injured spinner Amit Mishra, who has been ruled out of the tournament, with Axar Patel.