Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) locked horns with Rajasthan Royals (RR) on Thursday with the latter scoring 177 for the loss of 9 wickets. Shivam Dube, Riyan Parag, and Rahul Tevathia played a crucial role in their team reaching a respectable total after reeling at 43/4. However, Parag and Dubey made a solid partnership of 66 runs that took the score past 100 runs.
Then along with Rahul Tewatia, Shivam Dubey took the score past 170. The latter was seen struggling in the last few games. However, against RCB, he smashed 46 runs in just 32 balls. He hit five fours and two huge sixes which came in the overs of Yuzvendra Chahal. In the ninth over, he smashed Chahal for 17 runs.
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On the second ball of the over, Shivam Dube moved his front leg and smashed the ball over long-on. It was a powerful slog sweep, as the ball went miles over long-on. Even, Virat Kohli was left shocked and, could not believe his eyes as it was 100m six. On the fourth delivery of the over, Chahal once again bowled into the arc of Dubey.\
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The batsman one again cleared his front leg, went down, and played a slog sweep as the ball went over long-on. It was another massive six. Fortunately for Chahal, the next two balls were dots. Still, the over went for 17 runs.
Here is the video of the huge six by Shivam Dube:
M16: RCB vs RR – Shivam Dube Six https://t.co/nP5Wjy8HtX
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RCB managed to stretch their unbeaten streak to 4 matches in a row in the ongoing season of the IPL 2021. They comfortably chased down a tricky target of 178 runs with 10 wickets in hand and more than 3 overs to spare as Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal came down all guns blazing. RCB has once again reached the top of the IPL 2021 points table.