IPL 2021 RCB (171/5) beat DC (170/4) by 1 run

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Time: 2:00 PM GMT, 7:30 PM LOCAL

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Squads:

Delhi Capitals : Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (wk / c), Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woakes, R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Avesh Khan, Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Lukman Meriwala, M Siddarth, Tom Curran, Sam Billings.

Royal Challengers Bangalore : Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Kane Richardson, Washington Sundar, Pavan Deshpande, Finn Allen, Shahbaz Ahamad, Navdeep Saini, Adam Zampa, Kyle Jamieson, Glenn Maxwell, Rajat Patidar, Sachin Baby, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Daniel Christian, KS Bharat, Suyash Prabhudessai, Daniel Sams, Harshal Patel

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[Firebat]

Delhi Capitals have won the toss and have opted to field

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Virat Kohli(c), Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers(w), Washington Sundar, Daniel Sams, Kyle Jamieson, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj

Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Steven Smith, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Kagiso Rabada, Ishant Sharma, Avesh Khan

 

[Smbhayi]

First time playing fantasy cricket in my11circle and Devdat is my VC.. thank you Axar Patel..

 

[Smbhayi]

Kohli gone.. Thankfully he's not my captain..

 

[Smbhayi]

Excellent delivery by Ishant, there goes my VC

 

[Smbhayi]

BTW BrettLee Donates 1 bitcoin (around 43 lakes) for oxygen supplies

 

[RamLakhan]

RCB back to their basics!

 

[Justcrazy]

47 . 2

RCB need to consolidate here , they have Maxwell and AB still with them

 

[Justcrazy]

SIXXX

Maxwell sends Axar to orbit

 

[Justcrazy]

RCB loosing wickets at regular intervals

 

[Justcrazy]

SIX

Patidar sends Mishra to orbit

 

[Justcrazy]

AB can explode any moment , he is a big impact player.

 

[Justcrazy]

105 . 3

36 balls left ....

 

[Justcrazy]

With AB at the crease anything is possible.

 

[Justcrazy]

All waiting for AB explosion here

 

[Justcrazy]

128 . 4


18 balls left , 160 on cards if AB fires.

 

[Ab Fan]

Rabada with all his deliveries 140 kph+.

I am surprised though that AB has scored a bit slowly.

 

[Ab Fan]

Sundar has spoiled things for RCB here. Just wasted deliveries.

 

[guna]

Sundar has spoiled things for RCB here. Just wasted deliveries.

He can be a great Test all rounder. Useful ODI player and a below average T20 player. Sundar cannot hit big at will to be considered a dangerous player in T20's.

 

[Ab Fan]

DC's bowling is top notch. Avesh is brilliant in death overs and also bowling upfront.

 

[Justcrazy]

23 runs from last over , this may be crucial

Target for Delhi is 172

Interesting chase on cards.

 

[Justcrazy]

1 - 24 off 4 overs , Avesh has been very good .

 

[Justcrazy]

Quickest to 5000 IPL runs in terms of balls faced:

1) AB de Villiers - 161 innings, 3288 balls

2) David Warner - 135 innings, 3554 balls

3) Suresh Raina - 173 innings, 3620 balls

4) Rohit Sharma - 188 innings, 3817 balls

5) Virat Kohli - 157 innings, 3827 balls

6) Shikhar Dhawan - 168 innings, 3956 balls

That is why AB is such a valuable player , hard-hitting with consistencey

 

[Devadwal]

Very competitive score posted by RCB. But dew factor is what RCB Worrying

 

[DHONI183]

IPL 2021 | DC vs RCB | Match 22 | Ahmedabad | 27th April 2021 | Match Discussion

Yet another amazing rescue act by de Villiers for the RCB. What an innings, what a player!

As for Kohli, the problem which I´ve personally felt in the ongoing IPL is that he´s just staying happy with being a spectator as an opener and just watching Padikkal bat so well for them. He´s allowing to be overshadowed by the young guy in the partnership and is getting his own batting lost somewhere in the process. He needs to up his game a little and try to take the game on his own too. He must flex his muscles in the powerplay and take on the bowlers. Trust me, a few good overs filled with boundaries and he´s up and running once again. However, what he does is, he keeps simply hanging out there and keeps waiting for the perfect moment to go for his shots, and that moment sadly never seems to arrive. He must try what I´m suggesting.

 

[Ab Fan]

Prithvi always gets out in a really frustrating way by simply throwing his wickets.

 

[Justcrazy]

50 . 3

Pant needs to curb his natural game , and bat through here

 

[Justcrazy]

RCB ahead in the game here , required rate climbing , a solid steady partnership required here

 

[Caved12]

Pant needs to play a Dhoni kind of innings to win this game from here on.

 

[Justcrazy]

Capitals need 103 runs in 54 balls. RRR: 11.44

Delhi needs some big hits here

 

[Justcrazy]

Delhi need some lusty blows here to bring run-rate under control.

 

[Ab Fan]

Hetmyer clobbers Jamieson for three sixes.

 

[Justcrazy]

25 from 12 balls

Delhi needs at least 13 runs here to have a chance in last over

 

[Justcrazy]

Patel bowling well , Delhi needs a big hit here

 

[Justcrazy]

16 from 7 balls !

 

[Justcrazy]

14 required from 6 balls !

Last over of 23 runs may haunt Delhi here

 

[guna]

Interesting final over. Will RCB choke here after controlling the game for the most part?

2 big blows and the match will be over. A wicket here means RCB will win.

 

[Justcrazy]

Siraj bowling pin point here !

 

[guna]

Pant struggling to hit big. Very unusual. Brilliant from Siraj.

 

[guna]

DC needs 2 sixes here.

 

[Justcrazy]

SIX required of final ball

 

[Justcrazy]

Bangalore win by 1 run !!!

what a game.

 

[guna]

Pant loses it for DC.

 

[Saj]

Pant cost them.

Didn't score quick enough and then didn't give Hetmyer enough strike at the end.

 

[guna]

That dot ball costed DC in the final over. Had they scored at least a single there, match would be tied.

 

[sindhiboy]

pant is the last person i thought that would lose a t20 game with his low strike rate

 

[Saj]

Pant 58 off 48 balls, but inflated by 2 fours off the last 2 balls.

 

[Ab Fan]

Well played Hetmyer. Top class stuff.

RCB's bowlers have given a signal that they will choke in playoffs.

 

[guna]

pant is the last person i thought that would lose a t20 game with his low strike rate

He struggled the entire match with his timing. Not his day.

 

[Caved12]

Poor Pant looked like he was going to cry. My respect for Pant continues to grow and I am sure that he is going to learn from this experience. Captaincy changed Rohit and made him a player that he is today and I have no doubts that it will do the same for Pant who is already a very very good player.

 

[Bewal Express]

Hetmyr Looks well on the way to be the latest Windies to waste his talent.

 

[Hasan123]

DC need to get Hetmyer up the order. A devastating player on his day.

 

[Ab Fan]

Most man of match awards in IPL history:-

AB de Villiers 25
Chris Gayle 22
Rohit Sharma 18
David Warner 17
MS Dhoni 17

 

[King_Kohli]

Most man of match awards in IPL history:-

AB de Villiers 25
Chris Gayle 22
Rohit Sharma 18
David Warner 17
MS Dhoni 17

ABD the Legend, he deserves a statue in front of Chinnaswamy stadium.

 

[King_Kohli]

Mohammad Siraj

 

[King_Kohli]

Reports that New Zealand pacer Scott Kuggeleijn has been roped in by Royal Challengers Bangalore as Kane Richardson's replacement. Kuggeleijn was already a part of the IPL bio-bubble as Mumbai Indians' reserve player and he will now make the switch to bolster a squad that was hit by departures recently.

 

[ex-q-zit]

Well played Hetmyer. Top class stuff.

RCB's bowlers have given a signal that they will choke in playoffs.

On the contrary I think RCB bowlers have shown that they can handle pressure at crunch situations. We have seen them losing such matches where they required 60+ of last 5. But they came back to win with 25 of 2 overs. Unlike the past this time RCB have a good bowling attack covering all bases to support their batting.

 

[Saj]

DC need to get Hetmyer up the order. A devastating player on his day.

Absolutely.

No way should he be scratching around for deliveries batting at number 6. The problem is that DC batting line-up is very strong.