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.
During the toss, the SRH skipper, Kane Williamson said that they made just one change in the squad as Abhishek Sharma made way for Yusuf Pathan. On the other hand, RCB made as many as three changes in the squad as Shimron Hetmyer, Washington Sundar, and Colin de Grandhomme came back to replace Marcus Stoinis, Pawan Negi, and Henrich Klaasen.
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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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On the second ball of the over, Guptill stayed back on a length ball and ended-up chipping it towards short midwicket where Kohli took a comfortable catch. Just one ball later, Sundar again bowled a length ball and Pandey went for a pull, but mi-timed it and Hetmyer put-in forward dive at midwicket to take the catch inches off the ground. In the replays, it was shown that Hetmyer was in complete of the ball and his own movement as well.
Here are the videos of the dismissals:
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1124704372955332609
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1124704506631995392