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.
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.
WATCH – Parthiv Patel Finished The Power-play By Smashing Mohammed Shami
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. However, something unusual took place before the start of the 15th over when the umpires and the fielders weren’t able to find the ball.
Ankit Rajpoot was about to ball the over and but the ball wasn’t available. De Villiers saw the funny side of the bizarre situation as the umpires lost the ball in the interval, and the 4th umpire came out with the box of balls to replace it. Well, soon after that it was seen that the ball was in umpire Shamshuddin’s pocket the entire time.
Here is the video of the same:
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1121097052706836480
