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.