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Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik Lead Royal Challengers Bangalore

Shahbaz Ahmed and Dinesh Karthik strengthen the Royal Challengers Bangalore after an exciting 4-goal victory over the Rajasthan Royals on Tuesday at Wankhede Stadium. Karthik, who is in shocking form, stayed until the end to help the RCB gain two crucial points against a quality team. After a tough goal of 170, the wicketkeeper butcher remained undefeated at 44 because he also received a lot of support from Ahmed, who also got 45 and became an X-factor for the RCB.

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The RCB needed 28 races from the last three overs, with more than any left of Trent Boult, Navdeep Saini and Prasidh Krishna. Ahmed decided to attack Boult and defeated him six and four in 18th place before losing to a Kiwi pacer. His stay with 26 balls in the middle has 3 sixes and 4 fours.

While Karthik collected 12 races from the penultimate transfer of Prasidh Krishna, only 3 Rajasthan needed to defeat the RCB in the final and changed his plan to the final and gave the ball to Yashasvi Jaiswal because Harshal Patel did not waste much time to finish and hit six of the first ball to sealed the game. He scored the decisive 9 rides on 4 balls.

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While Karthik counted 7 fours and six to help the RCB win another victory thanks to its stunning batting.

Meanwhile, RR ace spinner Yuzvendra Chahal haunted his former team in the crucial clash with a couple of important wickets and a mega Virat Kohli run-out. Chahal, on Tuesday, played his first match against RCB and dismissed their captain Faf du Plessis in his first over. He also dismissed England’s David Willey with a sharp leg spin. Meanwhile, he hurt RCB the most with Virat Kohli’s run-out. Chahal teamed up with his new skipper Sanju Samson to dismiss his former captain. It was a very close run-out and a fraction of a second could have changed the verdict.

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RR Yuzvendra Chahal, an ace spinner, on the other hand, is tormenting his former team in a key clash with two major goals and a big outage, Virat Kohli. Chahal played his first match against the RCB on Tuesday and fired his captain Faf du Plessis in his first over.He also defeated David Willey of England with a sharp blow to the leg. On the other hand, he defeated the RCB during Virat Kohli. Chahal teamed up with his new captain Sanju Samson to oust his former captain. It's a very tight finish and a fraction of a second can change your judgment.

The RCB lost five of 87 runs when both Karthik and Ahmed took responsibility and revived a key partnership in 67 runs.

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Earlier, Jos Buttler beat up half a dozen six of his unbeaten 70 when the Rajasthan Royals reached 169.

Buttler, who was freshly in the last hundred, had to work hard on his 47 balls on the slow pitch of Wankhede. On the other hand, he had the support of Shimron Hetmyer (42 out of 31), as the duo shared a series of undefeated 83 raids out of 51 balls. The Royals didn't have much time in Powerplay and reached 35 in the absence of starting Yashasvi Jaiswal (4).

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Buttler and Devdutt Padikkal (37 out of 29) started playing their shots in Powerplay and shared a score of 70 runs to keep the innings running. At one point, 150 seemed difficult for Rajasthan after disciplining midfield jumps from Waninda Hasaranga and Harshal Patel. However, Buttler and Hetmyer turned over the last two overs and collected 42 raids from them. For RCB, Hasaranga, Patel and Willey shared the goal.