Shahbaz Ahmed and Dinesh Karthik led Royal Challengers Bangalore to a thrilling 4-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede Stadium on Tuesday. Karthik, who was in sensational form, remained on till the end to help RCB earn two crucial points against a quality side. Chasing a tough target of 170 runs, the wicketkeeper-batsman remained unbeaten on 44 as he was also supported by Ahmed, who scored 45 runs and proved to be the X-factor for RCB.
RCB needed 28 runs from the last three overs, with one over each from Trent Boult, Navdeep Saini and Pramukh Krishna. Ahmed decided to attack Boult and hit him for a six and a boundary in the 18th over before being cast by the Kiwi pacer. In the middle of his 26-ball innings, there were 3 sixes and 4 fours.
While Karthik scored 12 runs in the final over of the famous Krishna, which in the final over, RCB needed just 3 to win. Rajasthan changed their plan for the final over and passed the ball to Yashasvi Jaiswal as Harshal Patel did not waste much time finishing the job and hit a six off the first ball to seal the game. He played an important innings of 9 runs in 4 balls.
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While Karthik hit 7 fours and a six to help RCB get another win with his sensational batting performance.
Meanwhile, RR’s ace spinner Yuzvendra Chahal troubled his former team in the crucial clash with some crucial wickets and a mega Virat Kohli run out. Chahal played his first match against RCB on Tuesday and dismissed their captain Faf du Plessis in his very first over. He also dismissed England’s David Willey with fast leg spin. Meanwhile, he hurt RCB the most due to Virat Kohli’s run out. Chahal along with his new captain Sanju Samson dismissed his former captain. It was a very close run-out and a fraction of a second could have changed the verdict.
RCB were reduced to five for 87 when Karthik and Ahmed took the responsibility of the chase with a crucial 67-run partnership on their shoulders.
Earlier, Jos Buttler hit half a dozen sixes in his unbeaten 70 as Rajasthan Royals smashed 169.
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Butler had scored a century in the previous game and had to work hard in his 47-ball knock on the slow Wankhede pitch. He was backed by Shimron Hetmyer (31 not out) at the other end as the duo shared an unbeaten 83 off 51 balls. The Royals didn’t have the best of times in the powerplays, reaching 35 with a loss to opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (4).
Butler and Devdutt Padikkal (37 off 29) began playing their strokes after the powerplay and shared a 70-run partnership to take the innings forward. After disciplined middle overs between Vanindu Hasaranga and Harshal Patel, 150 runs at one point seemed difficult for Rajasthan. However, in the end, Butler and Hetmyer changed gears to collect 42 runs from them in the last two overs. Hasaranga, Patel and Willie shared a wicket each for RCB.
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