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.
During the toss, the RCB skipper said that they have made two changes in their squad as Dale Steyn and Pawan Negi made way for Tim Southee and Washington Sundar. On the other hand, KXIP also made a couple of changes as Ankit Rajpoot and Nicholas Pooran came back to the squad in Harpreet Brar and Sam Curran.
WATCH – Parthiv Patel Finished The Power-play By Smashing Mohammed Shami
Parthiv Patel started smashing the KXIP bowlers from the word go. However, RCB lost their skipper in the 4th over of Mohammed Shami and in the next over of Shami, it was almost like 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 as Moeen Ali and Akshdeep Nath were dismissed by R Ashwin and Hardus Viljoen. 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.
WATCH – When The Lost Ball Found In The Pocket Of The Umpire
However, in the 19th over RCB smashed 21 runs off Shami as De Villiers smashed three consecutive sixes in that over and one of those went out of the ground. Shami let slip with a high full toss and AB was actually turning his head away to take evasive action as the ball got to him, but somehow the ball finds the middle of the bat and went outside the stadium. AB reckons that might have been above waist height, but the umpire disagrees.
Here is the video of the same:
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1121101968443711488
