RCB made a huge jump in the points table and defeated Gujarat Titans by 4 wickets.
- RCB won against Gujarat Titans by 4 wickets
- There was a partnership of 92 runs between Kohli and Du Plessis.
- Faf du Plessis scored 64 runs on 23 balls
Royal Challengers Bangalore team managed to win the match against Gujarat Titans by 4 wickets. In this match, a great performance was seen from RCB in bowling, while in batting, captain Faf du Plessis played an inning of 64 runs. After winning the toss and bowling first, RCB bowled out Gujarat Titans for just 147 runs in 19.3 overs. After this, the opening pair of Kohli and Faf completely ensured the team's victory in this match by adding 92 runs for the first wicket. However, after losing their first wicket at 92, RCB lost 6 wickets to reach the score of 116. From here Karthik and Swapnil took over the innings and led the team to victory.
Great start by Virat and Du Plessis
Chasing the target of 147 runs, the Royal Challengers Bangalore team was given an aggressive start by the pair of Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis. Together, both of them took the team's score beyond 50 runs in 4.1 overs. Faf completed his half-century in just 18 balls in this match. However, before the end of the powerplay, he was out after scoring 64 runs in 23 balls with the help of 10 fours and 3 sixes. In this match, there was a partnership of 92 runs for the first wicket between Kohli and Faf. After this, Will Jacques, who had scored a century in the last match, could not do anything special with the bat and returned to the pavilion on a personal score of 1 run.
RCB's innings remained a struggle after a good start
After losing the wickets of Faf du Plessis and Will Jacques, RCB soon lost 2 more wickets, Rajat Patidar scoring 2 runs and Glenn Maxwell falling to Joshua Little for just 4 runs. Whereas Cameron Green could also score only 1 run. At the same time, RCB got the sixth blow at the score of 116 in the form of Virat Kohli, who became the victim of Noor Ahmed's innings of 42 runs in 27 balls. From here Dinesh Karthik and Swapnil Singh took over the innings and led the team to victory in 13.4 overs. Karthik played an inning of 21 runs while Swapnil scored 15 runs. Bowling for Gujarat, Joshua Little took 4 wickets while Noor Ahmed also managed to take 2 wickets.
Great performance by RCB bowlers
If we talk about the innings of Gujarat Titans team in this match, their very disappointing performance was seen. Shubman Gill could score only 2 runs and Wriddhiman Saha could score only 1 run. At the end of the powerplay, Gujarat team could reach only 23 runs, in which it lost 3 wickets. From here, a partnership was definitely seen between David Miller and Shahrukh Khan but at the score of 80, Gujarat lost its fourth wicket in the form of Miller and after this wickets kept falling at both the ends. Gujarat Titans lost the last 3 wickets of their innings within 3 balls and the entire team was out for 147 runs in 19.3 overs. Siraj, Yash Dayal and Vijaykumar Vyasak took 2-2 wickets in this match for RCB.
RCB has reached 7th position in the points table
With this one-sided win, RCB has now reached 7th position in the 17th season of IPL. After the defeat in this match, it has become almost impossible for Gujarat Titans to make it to the playoffs. This is Gujarat's 7th defeat in 11 matches this season and it has come to 9th place in the points table. This is RCB's fourth win in 11 matches this season and their net run rate is -0.049.