RCB vs Delhi: Royal Challengers Bangalore (Bangalore)) defeated Delhi Capitals by 6 wickets thanks to the brilliant batting of Virat Kohli and Krunal Pandya. Batting first, Delhi scored 162 runs. In response, the RCB team achieved the target of 163 runs in 18.3 overs by losing 4 wickets with the help of brilliant half-centuries from Virat Kohli and Krunal Pandya. Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings of 51 runs. He hit 4 fours in his half-century innings. At the same time, Krunal Pandya did the wonder of hitting a half-century after 9 years. Krunal played an unbeaten innings of 73 runs off 47 balls. In this innings, he hit 5 fours and 4 sixes. Tim David played a quick innings of 19 runs with the help of 3 fours and 1 six in 5 balls and returned unbeaten.
RCB team reached the top
RCB has won 7 matches this season and has done the great feat of winning all its 6 matches played outside the home. Not only this, RCB has won all four matches chasing the target this season. With the defeat of Delhi, RCB has topped the points table by adding 14 points to its account. Gujarat Titans team has slipped to second place in the table. Mumbai Indians team is at the third position. Mumbai has 12 points. Delhi remains at the fourth position with 12 points.
Bhuvi did wonders in bowling
Earlier, RCB team, who won the toss and bowled first, stopped the host Delhi Capitals at a score of 162/8 runs on the basis of Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s brilliant bowling. For RCB, Bhuvneshwar took three wickets for 33 runs in four overs while Josh Hazlewood took 2 wickets. In this way, Josh Hazlewood captured the Purple Cap by taking 18 wickets in 10 matches.
Delhi batsmen could not play freely in their own home against RCB’s bowling. In-form KL Rahul played the highest innings of 41 runs. However, for this he had to face 39 balls and could not hit a single six. Tristan Stubbs scored 34 runs in 18 balls. Apart from KL and Stubbs, no other batsman could even cross the 30-run mark.