Royal Challengers Bangalore annihilate Delhi Daredevils to post their third win. Catch all the highlights here.Reported by: Md. Notiur Rahman
Royal Challengers Bangalore post their third win at the Feroz Shah Kotla. Catch all the highlights of the match here:
22:53 (IST): Varun Aaron bags man-of-the-match award for his two for 24.
22:41 (IST): Royal Challengers Bangalore record a comfortable 10-wicket win. Chris Gayle (62 off 40) and Virat Kohli (35 off 23) wasted no time to guide RCB to victory in 10.3 overs. Comprehensive win would be an understatement. 96 was not supposed to be a big target but to win with 57 balls and 10 wickets to spare is making a big statement. Delhi had nothing to offer and nothing to defend.
22:24 (IST): FIFTY! Chris Gayle slams his 18th fifty off 29 balls. He reached the landmark in style, smashes Imran Tahir for a huge six. RCB are cruising.
22:02 (IST): Chris Gayle takes on Dominic Joseph, hammers him for a huge six and then follows it up with a couple of fours. That's fantastic start by RCB chasing a paltry target.
21:39 (IST): Delhi fold for 95, that's the lowest score of the season for any team. RCB bowlers have delivered with Mitchell Starc leading the way. He finishes with three for 20 and has been very well supported by Varun Aaron David Wiese. Both finish with two wickets apiece. Only three batsmen managed to reach double figures. Kedar Jadhav top scored with 33, while Mayank Agarwal hit 27 and 13 for captain JP Duminy.
21:26 (IST): WICKET! Starc gets his third. Excellent yorker! Around off stump, Nadeem looks to dig it out but the ball goes right under and hits the off stump!
21:12 (IST): WICKET! Plumb in front! Full and on off, coming in, Nathan Coulter-Nile misses his flick and gets hit on the pads. The umpire raises his finger. David Wiese gets his second wicket.
21:06 (IST): WICKET! Flatter outside off, throwing it wide, Mayank Agarwal comes down the track and swings hard but the ball goes beneath the bat and Dinesh Karthik does the rest. Iqbal Abdulla gets his man.
20:40 (IST): Varun Aaron bowls a cracking over. Bags two wickets. On a length on middle, angled away, Yuvraj Singh plays at it away from his body and gets a thick outside edge to the keeper. Angelo Mathews follows suit and is out for a golden duck. Banged in short on middle and off, Mathews looks to tuck it to the leg side but the ball bounces sharply and goes off the leading edge which goes straight up in the air. de Villiers at short mid-wicket does not sight the ball initially. He then recovers just in time to take the catch.
20:30 (IST): WICKET! Big blow! David Wiese has struck. A length ball outside off, JP Duminy looks to thrash it through the off side but the ball shapes back in just a little bit, stays low as well and takes the bottom edge. Duminy does not even bother waiting for the umpire's decision and walks off.
20:22 (IST): SIX! Mayank Agarwal takes on Varun Aaron. A short ball down the leg side, Agarwal pulls it over fine leg and it clears the ropes!
20:04 (IST): WICKET! DD's latest sensation has been sent back by Mitchell Starc. It was an inswinging yorker on middle, Shreyas Iyer was too late in getting his bat down and was totally beaten, getting hit on the pads. Starc appealed and up went the finger! A golden duck for Iyer.
20:01 (IST): Mayank Agarwal and Shreya Iyer are out in the middle. Mitchell Starc starts proceedings for RCB.
19:40 (IST): TEAMS
Delhi Daredevils: Shreyas Iyer, Mayank Agarwal, Jean-Paul Duminy, Yuvraj Singh, Angelo Mathews, Kedar Jadhav, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Amit Mishra, Shahbaz Nadeem, Imran Tahir, Domnic Joseph
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli), Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Dinesh Karthik, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, David Wiese, Harshal Patel, Mitchell Starc, Iqbal Abdulla, Varun Aaron
19:35 (IST): TOSS! Royal Challengers Bangalore have won the toss and they will bowl first against Delhi Daredevils. Yuzvendra Chahal is out of RCB XI due to an injury, Varun Aaron drafted in.
When Virat Kohli's men collide with JP Duminy's brigade, the goal for both teams would be the same - to eliminate the mediocrity that has hamstrung both units throughout the tournament and have kept them stuck at the mid-table. (Kohli Becomes RCB's Most Prolific Batsman)
Both teams have struggled to hit form early. Daredevils lost both their opening encounters while, the Royal Challengers managed just one win from their first three games.
However, both have received a boost in confidence after their recent performances. While Delhi defeated Mumbai Indians to end a nine-match losing streak at their home ground since 2013, RCB bounced back with a win against league leaders Rajasthan Royals at Ahmedabad.
The Royal Challengers skipper Kohli described his team's nine-wicket victory over the Royals as "well-earned" and a "timely" one and hoped to carry forward the momentum in the remaining matches.
The Daredevils captain Duminy too, has been buoyed by his recent success and feels confident before the upcoming battle against Bangalore.
While the big names have struggled for RCB, Daredevils have produced a future star in Shreyas Iyer. The right-handed young opener has become his team's leading run-getter with 227 runs and along with Imran Tahir has been instrumental in reviving Delhi's fortunes.
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