Both teams are at the bottom of the table. The team that loses will be eliminated. Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings entered the field with such an equation in front. Bengaluru won. And Punjab is confirmed as the second team of the current IPL. Mumbai Indians left before them.
Batting first in this match, Bengaluru posted a huge score of 241 runs for 7 wickets. In response, Punjab were all out for 181 runs. Bengaluru won by 60 runs.
Bengaluru lost captain Faf du Plessis (7 balls 9) by 19 runs after losing the toss to bat in Dharamsala on Thursday. Will Jacks (7 balls 12) could not do anything.
After that, Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar put on 76 runs in 32 balls after batting wildly for the third wicket. Both of them nodded fifty. Patidar (55 off 23 balls) got out after scoring a half-century. He finished the innings with 3 boundaries and 6 sixes.
However, Kohli, who was moving towards the century, formed another stormy pair with Cameron Green for the fourth wicket. In this pair, they made 62 runs off 46 balls. However, Kohli had to return with the regret of not being able to score a century for 8 runs. The Bengaluru opener got out for 92 runs off 47 balls. Green scored 46 off 27 balls. In the end, Dinesh Karthik took Bengaluru’s innings to 241 runs by scoring 18 runs off 7 balls.
In reply Jonny Bairstow and Railay Russo managed the shock (Prabathashimran Singh 4 balls 6) at the beginning of batting. They scored 65 runs off 31 balls for the second wicket. Bairstow stopped after scoring 27 runs off 16 balls. And Russo played a great innings of 61 runs off 27 balls.
But Rousseau’s fight alone did not help Punjab. Because, apart from Shashank Singh’s 37 runs, no one could stand at the bottom. Only captain Sam scored 22 runs. The innings of the rest did not even touch double digits.
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